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Merryn Somerset Webb's Christmas reading list (LINK) [The books: Jesse Livermore Boy Plunger: The Man Who Sold America Short in 1929, Saving the City: the Great Financial Crisis of 1914, The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash that Cured itself, Edinburgh: Mapping the City, Bitcoin: the Future of Money, The Second Machine Age, Fast Forward , The English Civil War: A People’s History]
Philosophical Economics: What Is Intrinsic Value, And Who Decides It? (LINK)
Stable Investor blog interviews Safal Niveshak's Vishal Khandelwal (LINK)
The must watch video of the day: A monkey saves the life of another monkey who fell unconscious after being electrocuted in India's northern city of Kanpur on Saturday (LINK)
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Alex Rubalcava is Tweeting live from the Daily Journal Meeting today (LINK) A short overview of Kyle Bass' latest letter (LINK) Horizon Kinetics' latest in their index series: Robo-Adviser, Part II, or What’s in Your Asset Allocation Program?...
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I've previously asked for (good) business biography recommendations, and I appreciate all who have sent titles along (the list so far is HERE). On a related note, I came across the following site which has a bunch more listed: Business History - Business...
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I hadn't seen this until now, though given the popularity of the book I figured this was coming eventually, but 100 to 1 in the stock market appears to have been re-released earlier this year. So if you hadn't gotten your copy yet, now you...
- Niall Ferguson On Charlie Rose
I found the Charlie Rose interview with Niall Ferguson pretty interesting (VIDEO 11/3/2009). In it, Ferguson says that he thinks Mr. Buffett is making a mistake buying Burlington Northern. The statement "This is a moment in history when the things that...
- Weekly Roundup - December 21, 2013
We're down to just 4 more shopping days until Christmas, so you better get on out there if you haven't bought everything yet. It's looking more and more like I'll be home for Christmas, which is just awesome. If I'm home for Christmas...
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Merryn Somerset Webb's Christmas reading list (LINK) [The books: Jesse Livermore Boy Plunger: The Man Who Sold America Short in 1929, Saving the City: the Great Financial Crisis of 1914, The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash that Cured itself, Edinburgh: Mapping the City, Bitcoin: the Future of Money, The Second Machine Age, Fast Forward , The English Civil War: A People’s History]
Paul Graham: How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (LINK)This week, one commentator referred to the general level of upset over the threats to Sony and its movie about Kim Jong Un as “beyond the realms of stupid”. It is an entirely reasonable reaction. The idea that a huge corporation can be forced to change the way its business works by a tiny group of the ideologically insane is clearly silly.But if you start looking around for things that somehow feel beyond stupid in today’s world of money and business, your list will get very long, very quickly. Still, lest you think that beyond stupid is somehow a modern thing, I am making the first part of this year’s Christmas book list about the many crises of the past.
Philosophical Economics: What Is Intrinsic Value, And Who Decides It? (LINK)
Stable Investor blog interviews Safal Niveshak's Vishal Khandelwal (LINK)
The must watch video of the day: A monkey saves the life of another monkey who fell unconscious after being electrocuted in India's northern city of Kanpur on Saturday (LINK)
- Links
Alex Rubalcava is Tweeting live from the Daily Journal Meeting today (LINK) A short overview of Kyle Bass' latest letter (LINK) Horizon Kinetics' latest in their index series: Robo-Adviser, Part II, or What’s in Your Asset Allocation Program?...
- Links
I've previously asked for (good) business biography recommendations, and I appreciate all who have sent titles along (the list so far is HERE). On a related note, I came across the following site which has a bunch more listed: Business History - Business...
- Links
I hadn't seen this until now, though given the popularity of the book I figured this was coming eventually, but 100 to 1 in the stock market appears to have been re-released earlier this year. So if you hadn't gotten your copy yet, now you...
- Niall Ferguson On Charlie Rose
I found the Charlie Rose interview with Niall Ferguson pretty interesting (VIDEO 11/3/2009). In it, Ferguson says that he thinks Mr. Buffett is making a mistake buying Burlington Northern. The statement "This is a moment in history when the things that...
- Weekly Roundup - December 21, 2013
We're down to just 4 more shopping days until Christmas, so you better get on out there if you haven't bought everything yet. It's looking more and more like I'll be home for Christmas, which is just awesome. If I'm home for Christmas...