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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007The topic discussed by many an investor this week, market volatility has been at the forefront of most people’s minds since the massive losses incurred during last week’s roller coaster ride. However, as this excellent article from Vanguard points out, “It’s important, however, to tune out the media “noise” and put this volatility in perspective.” [...]
Online financial reading
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Stuck at work, nothing to do? Want to read and bring your financial literacy up to a respectable level? Well try reading a few chapters of some of my favorite books. First off William Bernstein’s excellent website, The Efficient Frontier, has the first chapter of his great book, “The Four Pillars of Investing” available for [...]
Inflation and You
Thursday, June 28th, 2007Today I read a really interesting article called Wake Up and Smell the Inflation on Forbes.com, on how the reported inflation figures are far below the true inflation numbers - it seems that there are many reasons a government would want to keep the reported numbers below the actual figure.
As stated in the article:
Interest [...]
High Customer Satisfaction = High Stock Price?
Saturday, May 19th, 2007One of my favorite consumer blogs is Consumerist.com, which has tons of interesting stuff to read every day. Yesterday they strayed from the norm a little bit and posted a piece about the stock market, entitled “How To Beat The Stock Market: Buy Companies With High Customer Satisfaction Scores”. The post has received 16,000 page [...]
The Mystery of the Bees
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Small, buzzing bees. They bothered you at your picnics when you were a kid. You never really took much notice of them, until one day, they started to disappear. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well believe it or not, bees all over the country have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the past 6 [...]
Weekend Financial Stories of Interest
Sunday, May 6th, 2007Here are some interesting stories from the world of finance over the weekend, just in case you can’t find something to read this Sunday afternoon:
Businesses Try to Make Money and Save the World, in the NY Times, is an article by Stephanie Strom all about a new type of investment firm: one owned by a [...]
Book Review - The Bogleheads Guide to Investing
Sunday, March 18th, 2007Welcome to the first edition of my quick and dirty book reviews, brought to you by your local public library. Actually, in this case, the Los Angeles Public Library system didn’t have the book, so I bought it. Normally, the LAPL has every book I read and even lets you put holds on the books [...]
Prologue to a Phenomenology of Individual Investor Consciousness: Part, the First
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Heidegger identified time as the horizon from which Being is to be understood. I am not one to reinvent the wheel; and, I am in the mode of standing on the shoulders of my preceding giants, therefore, let us introduce this introduction by way of the temporality of economics, viz. the phenomenon of market timing. [...]
Prelude to the Prologue to a Phenomenology of Individual Investor Consciousness
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007I–by these words–am committing myself to write a series, wherein I will examine the nature of the Consciousness (large “C,” denoting the intended hypostatization of that which is inherently non-substantial and generally, if not wholly, misunderstood) that undergirds the actions of the individual investor, to which class of persons I belong. I do not propose that what [...]
A Witty Soul
Friday, March 9th, 2007Well, after my counterparts amazing introduction I thought I should introduce myself to the crowd. I am, was, and always will be the unique individual known as Ryle. I hope to bring to the forefront that which you have not yet contemplated into existence; or perhaps shed some new light on an issue you think [...]