Here comes the big Twitter IPO -- sell your kids and mortgage your house

This week's top stories from wealth manager and CNBC commentator Josh Brown
SEP 18, 2013
Each week I read all of the important stories affecting your business and investments. Below is the weekly catch-up, curated just for you: Here comes the big Twitter IPO, sell your kids and mortgage your house - this could be the biggest tech debut of the year. (DealBook) Apple announces new iPhone 5s, new colors choices and a cheaper version to compete at the low end of the smartphone business. (New York Times) Five years after Lehman and the financial crisis, we're ready to announce a winner - it's Wall Street! (TIME) The biggest Dow Jones index shakeup in a decade: Nike, Goldman and Visa are in - who's getting bounced out? (Reuters) Optimism always wins in the long-run and 42 important pearls of wisdom that every investor needs to be aware of. (MotleyFool) Joshua Morgan Brown is a New York City-based wealth manager and popular financial commentator on CNBC. You can follow his writing at The Reformed Broker blog and his random outbursts on Twitter @reformedbroker.

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