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Surprise! California’s 40 Qs of Rising Minimum Wage & Fast Food Industry Growth (Beating USA)

The Big Picture

To prove their point, a number of friendly commentators, academics, and hired guns all wrote endless white papers, Op-Eds and commentaries. But they made one super-sized mistake: they cheated with the numbers. Its numbers are fake (June 12, 2024) Can Stanford tell the difference between scientific fact and fiction?

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 15–16)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey finds that while advisors are increasingly using passive investment vehicles, many are taking the time to look beneath the hood to examine the makeup of different indexes in order to choose the best option for their clients A survey of advisors working at enterprise firms shows a significant increase (..)

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Research links: comparing yields

Abnormal Returns

mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) A round-up of recent white papers including 'Japan: The Land of the Rising Profits.' caia.org) How the number of funds a manger handles affects performance. (alphaarchitect.com) Poor ESG scores don't prevent new share issuance. papers.ssrn.com) Quant stuff Research shouldn't happen in a vacuum.

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At the Money: Austan Goolsbee, Chicago Fed President on Tariffs, Inflation and Monetary Policy

The Big Picture

The supply side was healing on the supply chain, and there was a big surge of labor force participation from a number of groups. So you got a number of positive supply shocks that are exactly what allowed for the immaculate disinflation, which the people who thought that was impossible use that phrase mockingly. I think number one.

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Freedom + Control: Fueling The Independent RIA Movement

Advisor Perspectives

As the numbers keep rising, so do the number of business models and technologies that help advisors build a practice exactly as they imagined. If that’s what you’re looking for, this white paper explains it all from a top-down view.

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FARE helps Black financial professionals thrive

Nationwide Financial

According to a Nationwide Retirement Institute® Diverse Markets White Paper, decades of research show that Black consumers tend to express higher levels of generalized distrust than whites. The underrepresentation of minority financial services professionals has long been a challenge for the financial services industry.

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Risk Tolerance Dysfunctions

Inside Information

Yes, I was bothered by the fact that it took such a complicated psychological issue and rendered it into an overly-simplistic two-digit number—your ‘score,’ so to speak. But in the preamble to the white paper, nebo’s authors directly address the thing I had been missing. The white paper points out that, today, many (most?)