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A few months ago, I analyzed U.S. stock returns over the last century. Today, I'm going to determine the best portfolio over the last 50 years among the following asset classes: U.S. Stocks International Stocks Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) U.S. Corporate Bonds 10-Year Treasury Notes 3-month Treasury Bills Gold Commodities U.S. Homes To do this, I examined the BullionVault annual return…
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order granting exemptive relief from certain Inline XBRL requirements adopted on Dec. 16, 2024. More specifically, the Commission is granting exemptive relief from filing or submitting the following in…
I don't know if AI is going to destroy humanity. Neither do you. But here's what I do know: It's very difficult to have a sober conversation about this when there's so much money at stake. www.axios.com/2026/09/11/d...
From distressed debt to a trillion-dollar machine
Musings on Markets — Aswath Damodaran·The war in Iran, oil prices and worries about a recession have all taken turns driving stock prices in 2026 but talk about interest rates and where they are going has been a constant concern all year. In the last few weeks, interest rate worries have come to the surface again, for three reasons, all related. The first is the rise in long-term US treasury rates to levels not seen in twenty years…
I recently joined a professional organization to discuss various topics in wealth management. On our first Zoom call there was a debate around the use of levered long/short strategies. For the uninitiated, a levered long/short strategy is a way of taking market risk (like buying an index fund) while generating tax losses to offset capital gains (now or in the future). The leverage is what's…
Are people going to have to increasingly accept more delays and diversions as the effects of climate change intensify?
Europe is outperforming – but Europeans aren’t participating
Musings on Markets — Aswath Damodaran·It is undeniable technology companies have found their most hospitable setting in the United States and while there are many reasons for the US dominance of technology, easier access to capital for young businesses has been a key ingredient. Venture capital in the US, in its institutional and organized form, can trace its roots back to the 1950s, and over the last few decades, it has generated…
When I was 27 years old I was at a crossroads. I was five years into my career, yet I was stagnating. Though I was making six figures, which was great for my 20s, I knew I couldn't make much more at my job. Without an advanced degree, my future compensation would be an endless chain of 3% annual "cost of living" adjustments and nothing more. At that moment, I knew I had to make a change. So I…
Please use this thread to discuss your portfolio, learn of other stock tickers & portfolios like Warren Buffet's, and help out users by giving constructive criticism. Why quarterly? Public companies report earnings quarterly; many…
Mark Cuban: "James Talarico. Let's go. I'm a big fan. He's honest, trustworthy, he cares. He'll do the right thing as opposed to the politically expedient thing. To Texans, do what's best for Texas. You've been voting for Republicans all these years, what have they done for you?" #momsky#sheshed
Oh, and the National Association of Broadcasters is pushing a captured FCC to sunset ATSC 1.0, so they can guarantee the implementation of DRM across networks. Requiring internet allows for targeted advertising. Too bad for rural folks without broadband who just want to watch the news!
Musings on Markets — Aswath Damodaran·Foreword: I wrote and posted this piece on August 20, 2026, with the promise that I would listen to feedback and try to respond and incorporate ideas and suggestions. To keep this promise, I will edit this piece over time and reflect the changes I make. Original post: August 20, 2026 First update: August 21, 2026 - Updated AI TAM table to make explicit implications of AI market size for other…
Musings on Markets — Aswath Damodaran·Earlier this year, I was asked what I thought about Leopold Aschenbrenner and I admitted that I knew little about him other than what I had read about him, more in social media, than in the press - that he was a 25-year-old wunderkind who had started at OpenAI but had left to start a hedge fund. That hedge fund, built entirely around a bet that AI would pay off big time and near term, buying…
Situational Awareness and Amaranth 20 Years Apart
Musings on Markets — Aswath Damodaran·I am a lapsed academic, insofar as I have not submitted a paper for publication in more than two decades, but to acquire academic status, I did have to earn a PhD in the distant past. My doctoral dissertation, which like most doctoral theses is little noted and long forgotten, was completed in 1984 and focused on how the frequency of and delays in the release of information plays out in stock…
Why is it taking so long for the government to regulate them, and what are the consequences of delay?
If this merger goes through, CBS, CNN, TikTok, & more will all be controlled by Trump-megadonor Larry Ellison & his son, giving Trump & the billionaire class unprecedented control over what we see. Glad to see state attorneys general taking a stand for a free press & democracy.
Musings on Markets — Aswath Damodaran·I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content that I post online, there is a ritual that I follow with my data updates. I start the year with my general data update online, and follow up with a series of posts where I examine the implications of this data for investing and corporate finance. Since 2008, I have also done annual update papers on…
How the National Stock Exchange of India built the world’s busiest equity derivatives market