Pundits wildly wrong about shutdown fallout

Why the media may be misstating the shutdown's impact, and other must-reads from wealth manager and CNBC commentator Josh Brown
OCT 11, 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: Nate Silver: Normally political pundits are wrong, but they are wildly wrong about the fallout from the shutdown. (Grantland) JPMorgan reports first quarterly loss ever with Jamie Dimon as CEO. And the crowd goes wild. (Reuters) Meanwhile, the Republican party is now polling lower than Mussolini. Even among Republicans! (Gallup) It's official - inbound Federal Reserve chairperson Janet Yellen is the most powerful woman in American history. (Quartz) Gasp in horror at this year's most Google-searched Halloween costumes! (MarketWatch) 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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