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Chuck, Munger, Heraclitus...keep reading

This is being written a couple of days before Bite-the-Bullet day, August 14, when CEOs have to certify…whatever it is they have to certify....keep reading

One of the icons of the newly ascendant left is "fairness." But it's a very particular and peculiar concept of "fairness," inasmuch as it implies an equation while supplying only one variable:...keep reading

My second Behavioral Strategies Conference, exclusively for newsletter subscribers, will take place on Friday, October 8, 2010, at the Marriott East Side Hotel at Lexington Avenue and 49th Street in Manhattan, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m....keep reading

In last month's "Fun With Numbers," we looked at the four other bear markets of the last 100 years that were comparable in depth to the current one. The intent of that piece (which see) was to discover a pattern of recovery times, and the rates of return implicit therein....keep reading

Here's a phenomenally reliable reality check which you can perform on yourself, in order to see how your spiritual journey - from market-focused, performance-driven portfolio manager to life focused, planning-driven wealth manager - is progressing....keep reading

Sir Arthur C. Clarke...keep reading

The April issue of this resource included an essay titled "The Bond Bubble: Where the Real Risk Lies." It said the following....keep reading

Squibs...keep reading

1. Books about Buffett, of which there are literally thousands, tend adoringly to ...
2. Larry Kudlow calls Even Buffett Isn't Perfect "the best book on Buffett in years." ...
3. Patrick Toomey, President of the Club for Growth, delivered a talk at Hillsdale ...
4. It is part of our national financial neurosis that, when something like the ...
5. I suppose I've been writing a lot lately about how eerily similar the real estate ...
6. Speaking of out-of-print books of which you really ought to snag a used copy: ...
7. Subscriber Michael Ball wears two hats: he's both a financial planner and a ...
8. The June 21 issue of The Economist carried an absolutely spectacular special ...

I entered the financial services industry as a retail stockbroker in 1967. And, like you, I found that the huge preponderance of my prospects and clients were between 45 and 65 years of age (some older; few younger)....keep reading

As the last third of this tumultuous year begins, so much of the good advice you gave people over the last couple of years (don't give up on equities; don't trust bonds) becomes ever more clearly right....keep reading

During the third week in April, the broad American stock market vaulted convincingly to new recovery highs -- even as the dollar cratered against the pound and the euro, gold got back up to $690, employment surged, the unemployment rate dropped yet again, and retail sales shot out every light in the joint....keep reading

On Tuesday night, June 24, the London art auction week got off to an absolutely electrifying start with the sale of Claude Monet's "Le bassin aux nympheas" for the equivalent of about $80 million. The price was a new world record for the artist, and makes this painting the most expensive work ever sold by Christie's in Europe....keep reading

Longtime reader David Bahnsen sent along this lightly-edited and hilarious squib from Time magazine's September 28, 1992 issue....keep reading

After -- and sometimes long after -- important market turning points, we always look back and see huge items of anecdotal evidence which would have signaled to an open mind that the end was nigh. Without in any way suggesting that the market has already bottomed -- merely that we have to be awfully close -- I offer two such evidentiary gems, which appeared in the media on the same day in early October....keep reading

Charts...keep reading

When I turned on my computer on the morning of Monday, February 5th -- after a week in which the broad equity market in the U.S, had surged to a six-year high, in the process recording its best week in six months -- I found the usual market commentary with which AOL begins each new week of market coverage....keep reading

1. One of the greatest political speeches of modern times is today almost ...
2. If one neither ate, nor drove, nor lit and heated one's home and place of ...
3. Congressional hearings, especially those currently being convoked two-a-day ...

Lynd...keep reading