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The Need for Accountability in Advertising and Marketing
I'm working on an in-depth post about the process of buying a home from deciding to moving in. I've recently completed the process myself and would like to...
I'm working on an in-depth post about the process of buying a home from deciding to moving in. I've recently completed the process myself and would like to...
Inflation, Frugality and Vampire Energy – RoundUp
Inflation You guessed it. Talking inflation again. The NY Times published an article on Thursday discussing the problems facing the Fed as growth lags and ...
Inflation Rearing Its Ugly Head
In January I wrote a post about the topics we will be discussing in 2008. Inflation was definitely on the top of the list (commodities and China were on that...
How does it feel like to lose over $50B?
UBS shareholders have written off over $50B in the last couple of months. I can’t help but wonder how does that feel like? American companies are writing off...
No Room for Careful Optimism. Not yet Anyway
We’ve seen some interesting developments this week. Some might be considered reasons for careful optimism regarding the chances of a full blown recession...
The Role of Information in Stock and Capital Market Efficiency
Market efficiency is a concept describing market behavior. The assumption about market efficiency is a basic assumption in many economic and financial models...
The 80/20 Rule - Let Pareto Do Most of the Work
The 80/20 percent principle has been one of my favorites for a long time. Most of us have derived this rule intuitively through our experience but are not...
The Fool in the Shower - Is the Fed Turning On the Hot Water F
Milton Freedman supposedly made up this analogy describing a bather in cold water who turns on the hot water all the way up and gets scaled. To be perfectly...
