These Are Good For Investing Too
A friend posted a link on Facebook from MSN titled 11 Health Habits That Will Help You Live to 100. Quite a few of them can apply to investing as well. An ongoing theme on this site has been that it is guaranteed that there will be years that the stock...
Anecdotes Wanted . . .
“The reason capitalism has triumphed in the West and sputtered in the rest of the world is because most of...
Reflections Upon an Occasion of Little Consequence
I. Death
Many times man lives and dies
Between his two eternities
That of race and that of soul
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man dies in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,
A brief parting from those dear
Is the worst man has to fear.
T...
The Big Picture for the Week of January 29, 2012
A friend posted this on Facebook and I thought it was a very useful quote. As a matter of personal philosophy I believe that investors have a much better chance of portfolio success once they figured out what makes them tick, what is really important t...
Most of the World Wants More Bank Regulation
More business regulations. That is what survey after survey around the globe shows that the world’s populations wants. Despite a relentless propaganda campaign of misinformation, fabricated data and false narratives, the public has not been fooled by the 1%. The best efforts of a well funded group of ideologues — Free Market absolutists, anti-Democracy and...
New Reality Show: Real Economists of the Ivory Tower
Dan Alpert is a founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital. He has more than 30 years of international merchant banking and investment banking experience, including a wide variety of work-out and bankruptcy related restructuring experience. Dan’s experience in providing financial advisory services and structured finance execution has extended Westwood’s reach beyond the U.S. domestic corporate...
A Foundation to an Investment Philosophy
Josh Brown had a fun post up yesterday about his Twenty Common Sense Investing Rules. While I would probably frame some of the points differently and don't necessarily agree with all of them there is plenty of utility in the post.Josh's number 4;The mo...
QOTD: Opinions About the Future
I started reading The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks last weekend. Coincidentally, I come across this great quote yesterday: “I confess, I think about the future. So do my colleagues. If someone who’s spent decades investing doesn’t have an opinion about what lies ahead, there’s something wrong. I believe...
All Together Now
“Do you mean, sir, that these birds are cannibals?”
“That’s an odd question, young Master,” the banker said. “I merely said the birds drink blood. It doen’t have to be the blood of their own kind, does it?&r...
Hume, Causation & Science
There is a very interesting article in Wired this month, ostensibly about the tribulations of the modern scientific method, big pharma’s drug development approach, etc. But within the article is an excellent digression about the complexities of causation: “Causes are a strange kind of knowledge. This was first pointed out by David Hume, the 18th-century...
The Coming Money Trust (1912)
via Mises, we get this awesome critique of the Fed, circa 1912 (The Federal Reserve was created in 1913): > > Thanks, James! Source: U.S. Money versus Corporation Currency (1912) Alfred Owen Crozier
Andrew Napolitano on GOP Candidates
Andrew Napolitano believes that Ron Paul is the only GOP candidate who, if elected, won’t go to war or tell Americans how to live.
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