Plus some suggestions — in verse! — for others likely to be in the news this year.

Black-box investing strategies supposedly based on rocket science are vulnerable to a host of inherent biases, which are now being exposed. 

Don’t be fooled by their better-than-expected Christmas performance: Retailers are hurting. There are bargains to be had.

There’s a gold mine of user data to be harvested from these tricked-out televisions. Regulators have done little about it.

Investors simply don’t believe that the current good times will last. They’re right to be skeptical.

What we’ve learned so far, plus more industrial insights.

Wind power’s return on investment might not be as thrilling, but investors in clean energy should be very excited about the two technologies.

The tale of a presidential coverup is familiar — and troubling.

A proposal to ban the paper slips, like plastic straws, asks little of citizens and will have just as little impact on the environment. 

A new annotation of Grant’s “Memoirs” depicts a great commander of armies, but not of capital.