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"Febezzlement"
Monday, June 29, 2009
I was doing research and I came on a talk given by Charles Munger, the long-time partner of Warren Buffett. I had read the speech given at the...
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A lost decade?
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Economist Paul Krugman's worries that when the U.S. economy emerges from recession the recovery will be reminiscent of Japan's "lost decade". The...
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Missing Warren Buffett
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Numerous scholarly studies have documented the relative poor performance of professional money managers compared to the market averages, such as...
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Zweig on Bernstein
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Jason Zweig, the market columnist for the Wall Street Journal, has a nice tribute to the late Peter Bernstein. You can read it here....
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The older worker
Saturday, June 20, 2009
This comes from David Rosenberg. he used to be chief economist at Merrill Lynch. He is now with Gluskin Sheff. Rosenberg always finds intriguing...
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The Graduate, updated
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Remember the famous career advice scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate? A businessman buttonholes Benjamin Braddock, the recent college graduate...
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Real estate investment is risky
Friday, June 12, 2009
Bud Hebeler of Analyzenow.com sent out a note about a presentation he gave at a real estate seminar. I'm a big fan of his website and conservative...
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Short sighted management?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Here is my puzzlement. First, we live in an era when everyone from the President to the head of the local Chamber of Commerce realizes that human...
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Nussbaum on design
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
One of my favorite blogs is by Bruce Nussbaum at Business Week. He has an intriguing post on company leadership....
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The Student Loan Bubble Goes Bust?
Monday, January 14, 2008
For more than three decades, students and their parents funded a college tuition bubble with borrowed money. Two-thirds of college students finish...
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A Short Sale Warning
Sunday, September 14, 2008
I'm doing some research into the trend in personal bankruptcies this morning, and I came on this blog,Bankruptcy Law Network: It's by bankruptcy...
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The 1918 influenza epidemic
Thursday, April 30, 2009
I find these numbers stunning. They're from a paper by Elizabeth Brainerd of Williams College and Mark Singer of California State University....
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Lets get real
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Steven Pearlstein, business columist of the Washington Post, does a good job of capturing growing frustration. It worth reading the whole article...
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As someone born and breaded in New Orleans I'm sorry to see this news from my hometown paper, but as someone who's found reading it an...
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High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?
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First I'd like to thank everyone for listening to what I had to say, it's really an honor to have been on marketplace. Second...
Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
If the idea of "trickle-down economics" hasn't worked---when governments have actually *tried* it, rather than a form they...
kingjon | May 18, 2012
