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Weekend Diversions: The Yankees and Your Investments
The official numbers are out and the Yankees once again top the list for highest payroll in baseball at a whopping $209 million ($71 million more than the next highest team). The Yankees are Fiscally Irresponsible no doubt about it! Before I begin, let me take some time to announce that I will be selling [...]
read more »The Curious Investor too hard to read?
Thanks to the Trainee Trader for doing a little ranking of finance blogs and their readability this past week. It turns out that, among 39 other finance blogs, The Curious Investor ranks with just 7 others for a “Genius” reading level. For a complete list, check out the original post. Each site was ranked using [...]
read more »When Free Markets Fail
This week, I read two really great articles on the current public policy response to the credit and suprime crisis that I would like to share. First, an article from Businessweek which helps to put the recent Fed moves to provide liquidity in context. We’ve been seeing some unprecedented decisions by Ben Bernanke and the [...]
read more »How to become the richest person in the world
I read a very interesting article on Arohan’s Investing Life this week. He compared Stephen Schwarzman and Warren Buffett in order to make the argument that the hedge fund model, while very lucrative for hedge fund managers, doesn’t necessarily yield the best return for great investors. It’s based mostly on an article published in the [...]
read more »Weekend Diversions: Zooble
Looks like my little “Weekend Diversions” idea is not quite weekly feature but more a whenever-I-want feature, but I do hope its interesting and helpful for you all out there when I do write it. This week, I’ve found an interesting site I’d like to link out to called Zooble. With a name like Zooble, [...]
read more »Win $5000!
It seems today is a big contest day for me. Megamillions’ estimated jackpot is $220 million. Yes, I have tickets for that despite the infinitely low probability of winning. Hey, I get $1 of utility having an entry and following the story. And, for a more realistic shot, I just signed up for the CheapFlights.com [...]
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