Business Culture and Current Events Archive
All Buffett, All The Time
March 3, 2008 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events
Last Friday, Buffet released his annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway.
This morning, he was on CNBC's Squawk Box for 3 hours (6am-9am EST) answering viewers questions and talking investing.
The quote that seems to be ...
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Forbes Profiles Old School, Graham-Style Value Investor Walter Schloss
February 6, 2008 · Category: Business and Investment Philosophy, Business Culture and Current Events
"I can't say people will get rich on it, but I would rather be safe than sorry."
- Walter Schloss, on his recommendation of insurance company CNA Financial
91 year old Walter Schloss may not be as famous as ...
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Wall Street Babies
January 31, 2008 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Federal Reserve
..... macroeconomic policy should not be based on a panicky attempt to avoid a 2008 recession at all costs....
The US should face its need for adjustment with courage and reason, not fear. It should stop ...
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Ritholtz Blasts Ben Stein
January 29, 2008 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events
This morning in a post titled "Farewell To Ben Stein", Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture torches Ben Stein for his ideological and biased approach to the economy of late. Here's the beginning:
Its time to bid ...
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The Latest From Real Estate’s Spineless Cheer Leader
January 4, 2008 · Category: Real Estate, Business Culture and Current Events
Spineless adj.: without moral force, resolution or courage
Denial n.: a defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts or feelings
It was just brought to my attention that David Lereah, former Chief Economist of the National ...
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Revisiting 2007’s Hedge Fund And Private Equity IPOs
December 31, 2007 · Category: Stocks, Business Culture and Current Events
"These are sophisticated investors, and they certainly know how to time their own exits."
- Adam Zoia, Founder, Glocap, an executive search firm focused on the alternative investment industry, in The New York Times "Wall St. ...
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Revisiting Ben Stein’s Vicious NY Times Article
December 11, 2007 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events
"Why, then, is his document circulating? ..... To me, his paper seemed like a selling document in the real Wall Street sense of selling - namely, selling short.
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Here is my humble hypothesis .... : Is ...
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The Missing Link In Paulson’s Argument
December 7, 2007 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events
"This is a private sector effort, involving no government money; so some may ask 'Why are these government officials here today?' We are here because we all know that it is in everyone's interest - ...
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YouTube Music Video: Here Comes Another Bubble
December 5, 2007 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Humor
This is really funny and well done: "Here Comes Another Bubble" (YouTube Video)(via The Big Picture).
Catchy line: "It's a monster rally..... All across the valley."
Also good: "Blog blog blog it all.... Blog it if it's ...
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Dimensional Fund Advisors And The Efficient Market Religion
November 27, 2007 · Category: Business and Investment Philosophy, Business Culture and Current Events
"If you put a thousand people in barrels and push them over Niagara Falls, some of them will survive. And if you take those guys and push them over again, some of them will survive. ...
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