This one is getting a lot of critical notice – Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score of 98% positive: “Bolstered by a strong performance from Matthew McConaughey in the title role, Mud offers an engaging Southern drama that manages to stay sweet and heartwarming without being sappy.”
File in your “Things That Could Really Suck” Box . . . Being the nice guy that I am, I sincerely hope this doesn’t happen to you. No really – I mean it.
Where are we going as a nation?
There are certainly some worthy observations here on the crucial importance of building a financial plan with an eye toward expecting the unexpected. As far as I’m concerned, however, merely creating such a “plan” and then blindly sticking to it (as Mr. Richards suggests here) has been the death knell of far too many portfolios. True “long-term investing” demands constant situational awareness, solid advice and – most importantly – the ability to adapt your plan – not just adhere to it.
Rolling Stone TRASHES new Tom Cruise flick, “Oblivion” — “Earth is a garbage dump. Alien wars have left the future in ruins. The remnants of humanity have taken refuge on a space station. A pair of unlikely lovers are assigned from on high to do the robotic work of reclaiming vital resources and maybe saving the planet. OK, that’s the plot of Pixar’s WALL-E. Minus the animation, it’s also the motor that drives Oblivion . . .”
Quite coherent article on the changing face of information and news flow in the investment world.  Twitter is becoming both an awareness tool and a “disintermediator” of access to preferred information sources.  Financial institutions that fail to recognize this are going to be left in the dust: “Simon Ricketts of the Guardian has noted that ‘Twitter does its best work in the first five minutes after a disaster, and its worst in the twelve hours after that.’” (@rolldiggity)
Twitter: Your First Source of Investment News, The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz, 4/21/2013
