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April 25, 2014

“I’m convinced that everything that’s important in investing is counterintuitive, and everything that’s obvious is wrong.” -Superstar investor, Howard Marks,…

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April 18, 2014

“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.” -Alan Greenspan Brilliant bookends.  As…

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April 11, 2014

“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing to occasionally stand alone.” -Henry Kissinger “Deep doubts, deep…

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April 4, 2014

 “We’ve gone back into this kind of a foie-gras bubble environment.  We’re all being force-fed risk assets.  It’s an unpleasant…

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March 28, 2014

“Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” -Warren Buffett Special message:  Thanks to your loyal readership, as…

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March 21, 2014

“Americans were not put on this earth to become managers of decline.”   -Ronald Reagan  “Humans are…guided by the immediate…

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March 14, 2014

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” -Aldous Huxley POINTS TO PONDER 1.  Compensation trends are definitely…

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March 7, 2014

“Most of the money you’ll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the…

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February 28, 2014

“Owners of stocks…too often let the capricious and irrational behavior of their fellow owners cause them to behave irrationally as…

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February 28, 2014

“Owners of stocks…too often let the capricious and irrational behavior of their fellow owners cause them to behave irrationally as…

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February 21, 2014

“Ahhh, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there’s no such thing as a lie.  There is only expedient exaggeration.”  …

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February 14, 2014

“Consider the following simple, almost naïve question: Is it sustainable for an economy, which expands at a real growth rate…

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