The likelihood of electing the first commercial real estate developer as POTUS appears to be dwindling, according to pundits, odds makers and a majority of reputable polls. The Washington Post published a piece as of this writing which featured the updated electoral map shown below.
There was once a time where only the most extreme leftists would accuse Hillary Clinton of not being a true progressive, prior to, say, 2008. Even after 2008, Hillary Clinton was seen as perhaps being a more moderate Democrat, but still, ultimately, a progressive.
In the past, my practice has been to evaluate the performance of actively managed mutual funds from a given fund family, assessing their performance relative to the performance of comparable passively managed funds, as well as running regression analyses to see if they added value on a risk-adjusted
Here’s a simple script that pulls BEA data from its API into an R dataframe. The function below is written specifically for its NIPA tables – if you want data from the regional tables you’ll need to add a few parameters as arguments, but this is the basic gist of it.
Tax swaps are one of the few investment freebies. The concept is pretty simple. You sell an asset in which you have a paper loss. You simultaneously replace it with a similar asset. What you gain is a tax loss to apply to this year’s taxes.
For other posts in the series, follow the links below. I am a fan of the discounted cash flow valuation method. It isn’t perfect, but it also isn’t as horrible as a lot of people make it out to be. With everything, there is a strength and weakness.
What Would an IPO Investment in Main Street Capital Corp Look Like Today?
Welcome to the R graph gallery! Looking for inspiration or help concerning data visualisation with R? Here you will find lots of plots made using it, always with the associated code! I hope you will find the information you are looking for. There are several ways to use the website:
In this post we will discuss about building a trading strategy using R. Before dwelling into the trading jargons using R let us spend some time understanding what R is. R is an open source.
Most thoughtful investors know and understand the concept of confirmation bias. Very briefly put, we selectively perceive and choose evidence that supports our existing beliefs. It is a powerful natural process. Everyone is susceptible.
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