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Tag Archives: Investing
Gladwell (and Drucker) on Pensions
The Risk Poolhttps://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/08/21/gladwell-and-drucker-on-pensions/ by Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink): The most influential management theorist of the twentieth century was Peter Drucker, who, in 1950, wrote an extraordinarily prescient article for Harper’s entitled “The Mirage of Pensions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Data, Economics, Investing, leadership, long term thinking, Management
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The Future for Investors
I completed The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New by Jeremy Siegel today. It provides a great deal of analysis of what historical stock market returns for various strategies have … Continue reading
Employee Ownership
H.C. Miller workers to earn ownership [the broken link was removed] by Richard Ryman. I have always liked the idea of employee ownership. To me this can be a great help in creating a system where employees, owners, customers, suppliers … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Lean thinking, Management, Manufacturing, Systems thinking
Tagged Investing, jobs, Management, organization as a system
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Financial Education
Federal Reserve System: economic and personal financial education [the broken link was removed] “Financial education is a critical component of a robust and effective financial marketplace but it is not a panacea. Clear disclosures, wise regulation and vigorous enforcement are … Continue reading
Invest for the Long Term
Invest Like a Simpleton [the broken link was removed] by Tim Beyers, fool.com: Ten years ago, Tom Gardner boldly picked 10 stocks to buy and hold for the next decade. … Even with a tough week in which Silicon Graphics … Continue reading
Energy Future
Interesting chart from: The Oil Age Poster [the broken link was removed] . There are all sorts of opinions on the future price of oil. My view is based in the capitalist/market model – I believe that if it becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged economic data, Economics, Investing
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How Not to Convert Equity
CNNMoney is not exactly intellectual discussion of economic and investing issues but normally it offers fairly good material for the large number of people. Especially those who really don’t want to read Warren Buffett or Brad Setser [the broken link … Continue reading
Should GM be Removed from the DJIA?
Topic: Investing Should Dow boot GM? by Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com: GM’s market capitalization has fallen to about $11 billion, less than half that of the next smallest Dow stock… “It is coming,” he said of the idea of a foreign … Continue reading
The Greatest Wall Street Danger of All: You
re: Born Suckers – The greatest Wall Street danger of all: you by Henry Blodget. Henry Blodget mentions two profoundly (though simple) important factors that lead to poor investment decisions: Prospect Theory and Outcome Bias. He lists 7 factors, I … Continue reading
Adventure Capitalist and China Wakes
I recently read two books that offered perspectives I found worthwhile and were enjoyable to read. Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers tracked his trip around the world by car. Previously he had documented his around the world motorcycle journey in … Continue reading
