William Manchester wrote in the Last Lion: "University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota have found that teachers smile on children with...
Before turning over to the dark side, Greenspan had some candid thoughts on this. Google "Gold and Economic Freedom".
Good point. While mother nature deals good or bad cards seemingly at random, it is excusable to expect some kind of reason when rewards and...
You raise some valid concerns. But you are ok with rewarding cat owners while sadling the other catless unfortunate souls with higher costs for...
Perhaps some outside the box thinking is needed. There are more japanese families owning cats than JGBs. A great way to stimulate the economy...
Central banks, sovereign wealth funds and public pension plans control 29T or 40% of the world economy today. If you think this fire power is...
When holding equities longer than a day, the close is a better liquidity point than the open. It is harder for conflicted intermediaries to...
The combination of taxes and inflation is a significant hurdle for traders. What counts is the real inflation not some bogus CPI number here. If...
Do you think the monetary and fiscal policy would improve if FRB members and members of congress were required to have their net worth parked in...
No tin foil needed. Just check out Executive Order 12631, signed on March 18, 1988 by United States President Ronald Reagan.
Not that long ago people would laugh if you mentioned the existence of a PPT.
I was quick to dismiss weird theories when I was younger. After living for a while you notice many of the previous theories become fact....
Money has been sea shells, atoms of gold or electronic bits at one time or another. It did not stop politicians from spending other peoples...
Thanks a lot. That answers it.
I see the following closing times for the sp after the 87 crash in my database: date(yyyymmdd) closingTime(hhmm) 19871016 1615 19871019 1615...
People would rather believe a lie from an expert than their own eyes if there is some thinking involved.
There is persistence in outperforming managers. If you cannot pick stocks, it may be worth finding someone who can. Or just get an index fund.
When you say hedged, you mean being long a straddle ? (like short 1 future long 2 atm calls)
âOctober: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May,...
Interesting study. So trend following does not work in markets under heavy intervention, and such interventionist periods can last a long...
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