Darwin Awards
As Mark Twain said – The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.”
Loon
When you run a business that has any sort of public profile you get all sorts of emails, some insightful, some interesting but most are by nutbags. Generally these mental cases confine themselves to gibbering on about the end of the world, the coming great depression or some other conspiracy. However rarely do we get…
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I suppose the bulls have a similar feeling regarding rising prices.
Is Bigger Better?
This seems oddly appropriate given the post below on obesity. Within the world of managed funds be they hedge funds, private funds, alternative investments or mutual funds there is an observation that performance drops off with size. The traditional arc of the life of a managed investment is that a new manager pops ups, generates…
DetailsA Mathematical Challenge To Obesity
You are an M.I.T.-trained mathematician and physicist. How did you come to work on obesity? In 2004, while on the faculty of the math department at the University of Pittsburgh, I married. My wife is a Johns Hopkins ophthalmologist, and she would not move. So I began looking for work in the Beltway area. Through…
DetailsI Shouldn’t Laugh
Embarrassment is directly proportional to the value of your car and the perception of being a wanker.
As I Have Said Before….
………when referring to the funds management industry and its enormous fee collection for little return, I could be twice as incompetent for half the price.
Petrol
I had long been curious as to where Australia sat in terms of its pricing of petrol but was too lazy to put together a list. Fortunately Bloomberg has saved me the trouble. Most expensive gas ranking: Price per gallon of premium gasoline: Norway $9.69 Denmark $9.37 Italy $9.35 Netherland $9.35 Greece $9.23 Sweden $8.97…
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