Linkfest: Turkey crisis; Dodging taxes in Dakota; New ‘facts’ of finance; Dating the crisis turnaround

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Today’s most shared: Turkey turmoil… Dodging taxes in Dakota… Dating when the crisis turned around – late 2011… Bullishness jumps… Sell side’s worst rated stocks outperformed best in 2013… Tech’s lost year… Treasury yield hits 3%… End of unemployment insurance for 1.3m still out of work.. Japan hedge funds’ great year… Ideas adjust to new ‘facts’ of finance.

Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever
Bloomberg
Among the nation’s billionaires, one of the most sought-after pieces of real estate right now is a quiet storefront in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
shared by @LaurenLaCapra, @lucymarcus, @retheauditors, @MattGoldstein26
 
Bullishness Jumps to Three-Year High
Wall Street Journal
Individual investors were feeling especially cheery about stocks this holiday week.
shared by @ritholtz, @edwardnh, Naked Capitalism
 
Sorry, haters: Unloved stocks had a great year
MarketWatch
Stocks that analysts rated negatively in 2013 did even better than the ones they liked, reports Brett Arends.
shared by Abnormal Returns, Reformed Broker, @ritholtz
 
2013 was a lost year for tech
Quartz
All in, 2013 was an embarrassment for the entire tech industry and the engine that powers it—Silicon Valley.
shared by @davewiner, Huffington Post, @GTCost, @Kelly_Evans, @Noahpinion
 
Treasury yield hits 3%
Wall Street Journal
Treasury bond prices fell Thursday, pushing the yield on 10-year notes to 3%, a threshold that may signal a new baseline for higher interest rates.
shared by @prchovanec, reddit/Economics, Crossing Wall Street, @pdacosta
 
Where the 1.3M people losing unemployment aid this week live
Washington Post
A state and county breakdown of how the expiration of emergency aid on Saturday affects the unemployed.
shared by @edwardnh, @pdacosta, @Richard_Florida
 
Ideas adjust to new ‘facts’ of finance
Financial Times
Eight decades ago, economist John Maynard Keynes reputedly remarked: “When the facts change, I change my mind; what do you do sir?” Investors might do well to consider that question as, looking back at the past five years, it is clear some of the “facts” of global finance have been overturned.
shared by Naked Capitalism, @Kiffmeister
 

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