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Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Investing on Feb 7th, 2008
How we got here: I had seen this book mentioned somewhere a long time ago and forgot all about it. Then a friend of mine lent it to me and when I saw the author’s name, I knew I had to read it. Roger Lowenstein is the author of the superb biography, Buffett: The Making [...]
Posted in Investing on Jan 14th, 2008
It seems everyone is nervous about the stock market right now.
We are either in a recession or we are headed right into a recession. Stocks are going to drop and may drop even further. It’s time for a correction. We are already in a correction. Should you sell? Is it time to sell? What should [...]
Check out this review for a new book by Jason Zweig called Your Money and Your Brain.
It has some pretty good tips about how our brains work when it comes to making financial decisions—it’s pretty interesting.
Jason Zweig is the guy who wrote all the commentary on the newest edition of the classic Intelligent Investor. It’s [...]
Posted in Finance on Oct 17th, 2007
I like Ben Stein. I read his stuff all the time over on Yahoo Finance.
In this article he talks about the essential advice he would give someone if he were about to die (kind of like my book recommendations, only more drastic). It’s all vintage Stein: index funds, thinking about the long term and [...]
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