Friday links: being less dogmatic

Rates

• Why the slope of the yield curve is (still) worth watching. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
• Are economic forecasts ever useful in managing money? (morningstar.com)

Strategy

• Investors often time confuse price and value. (elmfunds.com)
• Why you need an investment policy statement. (mullooly.net)
• Additional research often only makes more confident, not more informed. (safalniveshak.com)
• Why you should follow people who "post with passion." (traderfeed.blogspot.com)

Support

• Stay up-to-date with all of our posts: sign-up for our daily e-mail. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Love Abnormal Returns? Then like (and follow) us on Facebook. (facebook.com)

Companies

• Best Buy ($BBBY) should be dead in the age of Amazon ($AMZN) but instead its thriving. (bloomberg.com)

Fund management

• Why money managers should continue to diversify away from traditional active management. (fnlondon.com)
• What asset managers are getting right in this environment. (bloomberg.com)

Economy

• Has housing activity peaked? If so... (calculatedriskblog.com)
• You have to look hard to find bad economic news. (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)
• What Sunbelt cities can learn from the relative decline of Chicago. (bloomberg.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Podcast links: book deals. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Startup links: finding product market fit. (abnormalreturns.com)
• ESG links: rating mismatches. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• This New Zealand firm went to a four-day workweek with surprising benefits. (nytimes.com)
• Josh Brown talks with Brian Portnoy author of "The Geometry of Wealth." (thereformedbroker.com)
• How overconfidence can work in our favor. (wsj.com)