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When Luca Pacioli introduced double entry bookkeeping in the 15th Century that single idea spawned acceptance of the modern corporation as a vehicle for collaborative business because it created an auditable trail of financial entries. The third party trust and validation business was soon to follow and has blossomed and grown ever since. Until I […]
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Extended time with the grandchildren always leads to the irresistible logic of A.A. Milne and his principal spokesperson, Winnie the Pooh. One of Winnie’s most insightful observations is about doing, or in his case, doing nothing: “People say doing nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” The investment world has apparently not heard
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Writing a weekly blog is a privilege and I usually have more ideas than I can handle, but this week all the news was old news and all the problems were old problems. There wasn’t anything new and exciting until I saw this morning’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, “ObamaCare For Congress” by the
Better Than Ohio Sweet Corn Read More »
“Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then
Active/Passive Debate Misses The Pony In The Pile Read More »
A Silver Mine For The Taking “The Economist” understands something about retiring baby boomers that has eluded the money machine of American business. In a July 8th special report, the editors described the motherlode opportunity: “With longer lives, more free time and a lot of cash, older people clearly present a “silver dollar” opportunity. In
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Everyone is talking about Bitcoin. Many investors, even those who never bought any, are now claiming to be early adopters. The world loves a winner and Bitcoin has outperformed just about every other asset class on the planet. If you bought $1,000 of Bitcoin in July 2010 at the opening price of 6 cents ($0.06)
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I’d Gladly Pay You Tuesday For A Hamburger Today Bill Gross wants to sell you a bond. For that matter he wants to sell you trillions of dollars of bonds and, preferably, in one of his Janus products. He did catch my attention, however, with an interesting article in Wednesday June 14’s edition of The
Whimpy Economy At Its Zenith Read More »
Harvard is among the most selective universities in the world. Gaining admittance is a passport to prosperity and elite networks. The waiting list must be as long as the line at the Apple Store at 9:59am on Saturday morning. How, then, can ten of the most brilliant and well qualified young people in the world
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It is always interesting to read The Wall Street Journal (“WSJ”) on days when the NYSE is closed and mainstream business is snoozing. Memorial Day 2017’s edition contained opinions you never read when the markets are open. While the mainstream bias of WSJ is still squarely in favor of groups who pay them, it was
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Most of us who have been investing for a long time know what kind of investor we are. Some of us are growth investors, some are growth at a reasonable price and some of us are unabashed chickens -also known by the more prestigious pedigree of “value investors”. Given the unrelenting rise of stocks of
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