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- Pop Quiz March 2001
Pop Quiz...keep reading
- The market doesn't know where you bought it
A couple of "Ask Nick" questions that appear here this month, another (on systematic withdrawal) that ran in August, and a whole bunch that you didn't see......keep reading
- Resources January 2003
Resources...keep reading
- Don't Accept Clients Who Know What They Want To Do
In last month's "Pyramid" piece, I offered the example of a couple coming to an advisor with a very clear, very wrong idea of what they wanted their investment policy to be....keep reading
- The Planet of the Economic Schizophrenics
Imagine -- somewhere in an as-yet undetected corner of our galaxy -- the existence of a mythical, far-off land, whose people live in the greatest peace, freedom and opportunity in the history of their planet....keep reading
- Save The Date - October 5, 2012
A fourth edition of my Behavioral Strategies Conference will be held in New York on Friday, October 5, 2012....keep reading
- A Sincere "Thank You"
Two months ago, as my new prospecting book was going off to the printer, I asked you subscribers to help me "seed" the market by giving me the names of your national training and development executives, for the purpose of potentially providing them with sample copies....keep reading
- Keep Watching The Companies
From the very beginning of the current economic and market advance that got under way at the end of 1Q09, this newsletter has insisted that the condition of the great companies in America and the world was wildly different from, and almost immeasurably better than, the global macroeconomy as a whole....keep reading
- Squibs April 2008
Norman Vincent Peale, Charles R. Morris, Stephen Stills...keep reading
- Chart of the Month
Supplier Deliveries
There is always a question, in your intrepid editor's mind, as to whether he is coming up with genuinely important statistical evidence ......keep reading
- Resources May 2006
- The Capitalist Manifesto was, you'll remember, my first absolutely must-read ...
- The Way We Were
In April, U.S. Trust Company released its Survey of Affluent Americans XXVI. (For you plebeians, that means this is the 26th annual edition; don't think these guys take themselves and their survey just a tad too seriously, do we?)...keep reading
- Squibs August 2008
Joseph Schumpeter, Sir John Marks Templeton, Confucius...keep reading
- Pop Quiz April 2001
Pop Quiz...keep reading
- Squibs June 2003
Squibs...keep reading
- Squibs March 2006
Cairncross, Munger...keep reading
- Hedge Fund Deathwatch:
Who Was Managing the Managers?
Question: What do you intuitively know about a hedge fund with the absurdly prolix, puffed-up, self-important name of High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund?...keep reading
- Bill Miller
Bill Miller of Legg Mason Value Trust--blessings and peace be upon him--was a very smart guy when he was reeling off fifteen years of beating the S&P 500 (if only measured through December 31) and his fund had five stars. I believe he's an even smarter guy now that he's been through hell and his fund has had one star. Because, as Confucius reminds us, "The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." Here's a quite wonderful excerpt from his July 21 letter:...keep reading
- Resources April 2004
Resources...keep reading
- MORE GROWTH, MORE INFLATION AND HIGHER RATES THAN THE CONSENSUS FORECAST
Another very consistent theme in this newsletter over the past year has been that growth is stronger and inflationary pressures higher than most observers were expecting, that Fed rate hikes would therefore go on longer and drive short rates higher than the consensus outlook, and that -- global savings glut or no -- long rates would have to respond to some extent sooner or later....keep reading
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