A Century of Evidence on Trend-Following Investing
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More Evidence That Longevity Depends on Your State of Mind
Defining a Sense of Purpose For the study, Carleton University’s Patrick Hill, along with Nicholas Turiano from the University of Rochester Medical Centre in New York, Hill analyzed the lives of more than 7,000 U.S. adults aged 20 to 75 years over a period of 14 years. They found that the people who died during…
10 Life Lessons From A Navy Seal. I Will Always Remember
To me basic SEAL training was a life time of challenges crammed into six months. So, here are the ten lessons I learned from basic SEAL training that hopefully will be of value to you as you move forward in life. Every morning in basic SEAL training, my instructors, who at the time were all…
RIP Doc Neeson
I first saw Doc Neeson and The Angels more years ago than I care to remember in a shitbox venue that has now been consigned to history. He remains the most dynamic front man I have seen. The 70’s had been a decade when I had to wander along courtesy of a succession of girlfriends…
An astonishing record – of complete failure
In the 2001 issue of the International Journal of Forecasting, an economist from the International Monetary Fund, Prakash Loungani, published a survey of the accuracy of economic forecasts throughout the 1990s. He reached two conclusions. The first was that forecasts are all much the same. There was little to choose between those produced by the…
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Why We Do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Experiments
“I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?” –Philip Zimbardo Like eminent social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo (author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good…
The Washington Ballet’s hardest dance moves
Many many years ago when I was heavily involved in the martial arts (think two training sessions a day punctuated by afternoon naps in the uni library) I used to go out with a girl who was at the Victoria Collage of the Arts as a dance student. Occasionally I would go and stretch with…
Barclays Manipulated Gold as Soon as It Stopped Manipulating Libor
And still no one is in prison…. If you were writing a paranoidfantasyof gold price manipulation you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more on the nose than the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s order against Barclays. It has everything; it is the benchmark of manipulation by which all future manipulation will be measured. Well, this…
Vix Again
I came across this chart over the weekend. It looks at the volatility of stock, bond and currencies markets. The article that accompanies it falls into a trap I have commented on before namely, that volatility and changes in volatility are predictive. My view is that they are post-dictive – that is they react after…
Iran Executes Billionaire Guilty of $2 Billion Scam: Banker Put to Death for Fraud
I can see this catching on. According to the report, the billionaire businessman managed to swindle the state out of $2.6 billion, in a scam that began back in 2007. The execution happened suddenly, without giving Khosravi any notice, according to his attorney, Gholam Ali Riahi. More here – Latin Post
Motivation Monday
With old Tommy no longer with us and as a tragic Richmond supporter I thought it was worth giving this a run again.
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