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  • Justice is done.

  • Jun 29, 2009

    "Febezzlement"

    I was doing research and I came on a talk given by Charles Munger, the long-time partner of Warren Buffett. I had read the speech given at the…

  • Jun 25, 2009

    A lost decade?

    Economist Paul Krugman's worries that when the U.S. economy emerges from recession the recovery will be reminiscent of Japan's "lost decade". The…

  • Numerous scholarly studies have documented the relative poor performance of professional money managers compared to the market averages, such as…

  • Jun 21, 2009

    Zweig on Bernstein

    Jason Zweig, the market columnist for the Wall Street Journal, has a nice tribute to the late Peter Bernstein. You can read it here….

  • Jun 20, 2009

    The older worker

    This comes from David Rosenberg. he used to be chief economist at Merrill Lynch. He is now with Gluskin Sheff. Rosenberg always finds intriguing…

  • Remember the famous career advice scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate? A businessman buttonholes Benjamin Braddock, the recent college graduate…

  • Bud Hebeler of Analyzenow.com sent out a note about a presentation he gave at a real estate seminar. I'm a big fan of his website and conservative…

  • Here is my puzzlement. First, we live in an era when everyone from the President to the head of the local Chamber of Commerce realizes that human…

  • Jun 10, 2009

    Nussbaum on design

    One of my favorite blogs is by Bruce Nussbaum at Business Week. He has an intriguing post on company leadership….

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