The Costliest Mistakes Even Experienced Investors Make - Better Vantage by Vanguard Guest: Barry Ritholtz #Investing #Markets #Vanguard #Podcast
The Costliest Mistakes Even Experienced Investors MakePodcast Episode · Better Vantage by Vanguard · July 21 · 23mpodcasts.apple.com“Since Neander assumed control of baseball operations going into the 2018 season, the Rays have averaged nearly seven trades a summer. Here is a look at some of the impactful deadlines he has overseen:” By Marc Topkin #Rays ⚾️ #MLB
As Rays head toward trade deadline, their past shows hits and whiffsThe 2018 trade of Chris Archer created the gold standard for deadline deals. The 2021 acquisition of Nelson Cruz looked good but ended up bad.www.tampabay.com“The bottom line is that keeping your vehicle running when it’s not moving wastes gas and pollutes the air. Even if it’s not illegal where you are, it’s worth being aware of – and stopping if you can.” By Richard Marcantonio #Auto #Pollution #Health
Leaving vehicle engines idling is unhealthy, expensive – and often illegalIdling vehicles are easy targets for enforcement – they’re often left running for no good reason.theconversation.com“…remarkable works of genius and originality have a chance to do better than ever. But the smush harms the market for pretty-good or even very-good human work. Because there’s less of that, less genius slips in as well.” By Seth Godin #AI
The smushWhen new creation technologies arrive, they make the best a little worse and the bad a lot better. Desktop publishing made every local garage sale sign a lot more legible, but can’t quite rep…seths.blog“(Calijah) Kancey has struggled to do much of anything in camp, with Vita Vea’s absence contributing to that. If Kancey needs Vea to be productive, that is concerning considering Vea’s contract situation.” By Adam Slivon #Bucs 🏴☠️ #NFL
Slivon's Slant: Early Bucs Camp Winners, Losers And Two Emerging TrendsEmeka Egbuka and Rueben Bain Jr. headline the early winners as Bucs camp reveals key trends on both sides.www.pewterreport.com“Between 2Q25 and 2Q26, hybrid electric vehicles continued to gain market share, reaching a record 16% of light-duty vehicle sales. The market shares of battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles decreased, according to estimates from Omdia.” - Matthew Skelton, Michael Dwyer #Hybrid
Hybrid Sales Rise While Battery Electric Sales Remain Lower After Tax Credit Expiration - CleanTechnicaSupport CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of c...cleantechnica.com“The transaction compressed a familiar private equity sequence into a year and a half: Buy a growing franchise, add debt, make distributions to the owners, prepare the company for public markets, and begin selling down the investment without surrendering control.” By Esther Luz #IPO #Debt #Markets
Despite High Hopes, Jersey Mike’s Shares Slip After $1 Billion IPOThe sandwich chain’s listing is seen as a test of investor appetite for consumer businesses, with Panera and Inspire Brands in the IPO pipeline.www.morningstar.com“Momentum often acts like a complement to more fundamentally based strategies like value or high-quality stocks. Momentum is also something of a chameleon in terms of the types of stocks it can own over time.” By Ben Carlson #Momentum #Investing #Portfolio
Investing in Momentum - A Wealth of Common SenseSome thoughts on our new Porterhouse momentum strategy.awealthofcommonsense.com“If you’re buying a house, your mortgage doesn’t care what the headline says after an FOMC meeting. If you’re running a business, your financing costs don’t care whether CNBC calls it a pause. The market decides what money costs. The Fed reacts.” By JC Parets #Markets #Bonds #Yield
No Rate Hike. Higher Rates. - TrendLabsYesterday was one of my favorite kinds of market days. The Federal Reserve didn’t raise interest rates. And interest rates exploded higher anyway. If that sounds backwards, good. It should. Because th...trendlabs.comLet’s hope we don’t get the repeat of history from 50 years ago: The Emergency
The Emergency (India) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgHindus For Human Rights"This summer’s uprising was about far more than leaked examinations. It was a test of Indian democracy’s capacity to correct itself." Read more about the timely second chance India's democracy received on the New York Times. buff.ly/urIzB09
“(Stephen A) Smith is still powerful inside ESPN’s walls, and First Take will still be First Take, but the Worldwide Leader’s actual growth is happening around Pat McAfee’s model, not his. And for better or worse, that’s the direction of the company now…”
Awful Announcing“Although Microsoft says it’s making Windows 11 more efficient in 2026, I don't expect the experience with 8GB of RAM to improve dramatically. Even if the company achieved massive memory savings, third-party applications remain a major problem because many use memory-hungry web-based technologies.”
Seriously, Don't Buy a Windows 11 PC With 8GB of RAMBefore you fall for lower starting prices on new Windows 11 laptops, know this: 16GB of RAM is the absolute minimum you should accept.www.pcmag.com“Although Spring continues to favor its own abstractions in areas such as dependency injection, security, REST, and data access, many Spring applications will still benefit from Jakarta EE 11 improvements beneath the surface.” By Eleftheria Drosopoulou #Enterprise #Java #JakartaEE #SpringBoot
Jakarta EE 11 Under the Hood: What Spring Boot 4 Inherits and What It Ignores - Java Code GeeksJakarta EE 11 ships alongside Spring Boot 4, but most developers don't know what changed. Discover how Jakarta Data 1.0www.javacodegeeks.com“Whether concerns revolve around injury issues, age, poor focus or lack of production, this training camp is critical for several Tampa Bay players hoping to recapture past form. Their performance will go a long way toward shaping the upcoming season for a franchise approaching the NFL crossroads.”
Four Bucs With The Most To Prove - JoeBucsFan.comBY IRA KAUFMAN Avert your gaze from Baker Mayfield and Vita Vea for a moment and concentrate on the four Buccaneers with the most to prove in 2026. Whether concerns revolve around injury issues, age, ...www.joebucsfan.com“(Curt Cignetti) was the final coach to take the main stage at Big Ten media days and, like Santa Claus appearing at the rear of a Thanksgiving Day parade, Cignetti’s walk-off signified that football season is on the way.” By Scott Dochterman #CFB #CollegeFootball
Curt Cignetti on Big Ten vs. SEC: ‘We don’t cry a river, whine and complain’ (Gift Article)No entity was safe from the Indiana coach who turned college football upside down by transforming the Hoosiers into 16-0 national champions.www.nytimes.com“It sounds like (Jeremy) Fowler talked to (Baker) Mayfield’s agent — and someone tied to the Bucs — and Mayfield wasn’t truthful when it came to the money on a two-year extension.” By JoeBucsFan #Bucs 🏴☠️ #NFL
Somebody's Untruthful About The Baker Mayfield Extension - And Signs Point To Mayfield - JoeBucsFan.comThe strong Baker Mayfield insinuation yesterday that the Bucs offered him a two-year contract extension at less than $50 million per year is highly dubious. Mayfield told Jeremy Fowler of ESPN that he...www.joebucsfan.com“The Morningstar US Real Estate Index has climbed 16.4% in 2026 through July 28, while the broader market has gained 9.8% …. The Real Estate Index is on track for its best gains since 2021, and if sustained, it would be the index’s first year of outperformance in more than a decade.” Irza Waraich
Why Real Estate Stocks Are OutperformingDespite the prospect of higher interest rates, REITs are having their best run in years.www.morningstar.com‘Mayfield agreed to accept only a two-year deal, but the Bucs offer was reportedly significantly less than $50 million per year. Mayfield spent more than the first three minutes of a news conference laying out the arguments for why the Bucs ownership should reward him as a “franchise quarterback.”’
Baker Mayfield feels ‘disrespected,’ ‘undervalued’ by Bucs ownershipThe Bucs quarterback was offered only a two-year deal worth less than $50 million per year. “I’ve been told I’m a franchise quarterback.”www.tampabay.com