The WSJ Says Invest Your Emergency Cash, What?!?
Earlier today I engaged in a pretty decent Twitter exchange driven off an article at the WSJ suggesting... people invest their emergency cash. I quipped......
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Bitcoin Going Off The Rails On A Crazy Train
On Monday I wrote an article for TheStreet.com about the psychology of the Bitcoin craze. Since that article it had rallied another 50% into early...
Deep Thoughts With Richard Buckminster Fuller
One of my favorite TV shows is the shockingly profane Deadwood. My favorite quote from the show is when George Hearst says to Sheriff Bullock...
Great Charlie Munger Quote
Courtesy of Morgan Housel; It is remarkable how much long term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead...
Does It Make Sense To Implement The Taleb Portfolio?
Over the years we've touched on a concept put forth by Nassim Taleb that I find interesting even if difficult to implement. In an interview...
Back When Taleb Was Useful
The preface of Nassim Taleb's book Fooled By Randomness includes the following; The kind of luck in finance is of the kind that nobody understands...
Saving Is For Suckers!
Earlier this morning I saw a Tweet from AARP with a link to their Social Security Calculator so I clicked on to see where it...
Ideological Battle and 2 Million Page Views
A series of articles have been written in the last few days in response to this article written by Ayn Rand devotee Harry Binswanger at Forbes...
Luck Plays A Big Role In Investing
A reader left the following comment on the Seeking Alpha version of Understanding Time Horizon post; Investing real dollars with the goal of merely matching...
Peter Schiff With An Interesting Comment
I'm not much of a Peter Schiff guy but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the occasional interesting quote or idea. He was interviewed over...