Barry Ritholtz has offered a particularly exciting New Year's present for all of us with this 1-1/2 hour YouTube presentation of a discussion of the past ten years of market developments with none other than those gurus of gurus, Charley Ellis and Burton Malkiel.  Yes, 1-1/2 may seem like a big investment in time but just look at it this way instead -- instead of getting an MBA, just watch this video instead.  It's a lot easier than getting an MBA ... and possibly just as informative.  Happy New Year everyone!   (Oh, and by the way, included below is also the weekly summation,)



Succinct Summation of Week’s Events for 12.29.17

December 29, 2017 4:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

Succinct Summations for the week ending December 29th, 2017

Positives:

1. Stocks end the year strong, with the S&P 500 gaining 20%.
2. October Case-Shiller home price index rose 0.7% m/o/m and 6.4% y/o/y, both higher than expected.
3. Chicago PMI rose from 63.9 to 67.6, above the 62.5 expected.

Negatives:

1. Consumer confidence fell from 129.5 (a 17-year high) to 122.1.
2. Pending home sales rose just 0.2% m/o/m, below the 0.5% expected increase.
3. Jobless claims hold steady at 245k, unchanged from last week and slightly above expectations.  

Mon 1-1-18 Marias: Charley Ellis and Burton Malkiel: "The Elements of Investing" - The Big Picture

Charley Ellis and Burton Malkiel: “The Elements of Investing”

January 1, 2018 12:00pm by Barry Ritholtz

Start your New Year off right with this:

Burton Malkiel and Charley Ellis speak at a fireside chat on the topic of what’s changed in the last 10 years—a retrospective on personal finance and investing . Burton is returning to Google 10 years after his first talk here, when he was invited by Jonathan Rosenberg and Sergey Brin to discuss personal finance and investing in advance of the Google IPO at the time.

(2) Charley Ellis and Burton Malkiel: "The Elements of Investing" | Talks at Google - YouTube


Source: Talks At Google, November 12, 2013