Money and Finance
- Harvard Business School Case Study On Coors (1992)
Via csinvesting: "Rarely in Adolph Coors Company's 113-year history has there been a year with as many success stories as 1985." Coors's annual report for 1985 went on to cite records set by the company's Brewing Division. In a year when domestic...
- Bill Gates: Big History Project Update
The Big History Project began a few years ago after I took an online version of the college-level Big History course. I was so impressed with the structure and approach of big history that I got excited by the opportunity to offer it to a broader audience....
- Royal Society Journal Archive Made Permanently Free To Access
You can search for old papers written by Newton, Darwin, Ben Franklin, etc.The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently...
- Hft Drama Versus Dramatically Lower Costs
Michael Lewis launched his HFT book, did Sixty Minutes on Sunday, and here we are on Wednesday and HFT is still dominating the news cycle. Whatever you think of HFT, Lewis has already won. In our ADHD society, that we are still talking about his book...
- Dividend Compass Match 2 - Exxon Mobil Vs Royal Dutch Shell
In Match 1 of the Dividend Compass Cup, we had Coca Cola narrowly defeating Pepsi. The Dividend Compass Cup rules are straightforward, we run the two quality, wide moat companies through the Dividend Compass to analyze which is the more interesting investing...
Money and Finance
The Economist: A fishy tale
Interesting historical fact.
This engraving, of a flying fish, almost changed the course of history. It is one of a set from John Ray’s and Francis Willughby’s book“Historia Piscium”, published in 1686 by the Royal Society and recently put online by them for the edification of scholars everywhere. The society, which today proudly describes itself as the world’s oldest scientific academy (it was founded in 1660), was almost bankrupted by the expense of the high-quality illustrations in what was regarded at the time as a leading natural-history text, but which unfortunately failed to sell as well as its publishers had hoped. As a result, no money was left over for another publication, “Principia Mathematica”, by Isaac Newton. That the most important volume in the history of physics, which described the laws of motion and of gravity, saw the light of day the next year was, in the end, due to the deep pockets of Edmund Halley, of comet fame. Halley was the son of a wealthy soapmaker and he stumped up much of the cost himself.
- Harvard Business School Case Study On Coors (1992)
Via csinvesting: "Rarely in Adolph Coors Company's 113-year history has there been a year with as many success stories as 1985." Coors's annual report for 1985 went on to cite records set by the company's Brewing Division. In a year when domestic...
- Bill Gates: Big History Project Update
The Big History Project began a few years ago after I took an online version of the college-level Big History course. I was so impressed with the structure and approach of big history that I got excited by the opportunity to offer it to a broader audience....
- Royal Society Journal Archive Made Permanently Free To Access
You can search for old papers written by Newton, Darwin, Ben Franklin, etc.The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently...
- Hft Drama Versus Dramatically Lower Costs
Michael Lewis launched his HFT book, did Sixty Minutes on Sunday, and here we are on Wednesday and HFT is still dominating the news cycle. Whatever you think of HFT, Lewis has already won. In our ADHD society, that we are still talking about his book...
- Dividend Compass Match 2 - Exxon Mobil Vs Royal Dutch Shell
In Match 1 of the Dividend Compass Cup, we had Coca Cola narrowly defeating Pepsi. The Dividend Compass Cup rules are straightforward, we run the two quality, wide moat companies through the Dividend Compass to analyze which is the more interesting investing...