2015 McLaren P1 – Jay Leno’s Garage
Top 100 Entrepreneur Blogs
Commissioned for the NY Times – apparently we slip in at number 44. Who would have thunk….
Todays WTF Moment
Our program is a professional service to the financial industry; rats are being trained to become superior traders in the financial markets. Using our own methodology in accordance with well-established animal training techniques, our subjects learn to recognize pattens in historical stock and futures data as well as generating trading signals. We provide solutions for…
Wow…. Just…Wow
Pacific Investment Management Co. paid its former Chief Investment Officer Bill Gross a bonus of about $290 million in 2013, a year in which his Total Return Fund (PTTRX) trailed a majority of peers, according to documents provided to Bloomberg View by someone with knowledge of Pimco’s bonus policies. Mohamed El-Erian, 56, the former chief executive officer who previously…
Motivation Monday
I love old school training – no pilates, no spending the entire workout on the foam roller, no endless/needless core work, no bullshit – just work.
ASX 200 Versus Small Ordinaries
Looking at returns for the top 20 got me thinking about the notion of indices primarily dominated by large caps (top20) and those that were made up of smaller issues. This in some ways confirms my notion that the performance of the local market has been extremely secular and does not have broad support. You…
Even A Blind Squirrel Finds The Occasional Nut
I claim no special precognitive abilities regarding gold….
Metals
It has been sometime since I posted a chart of the less glamorous metals. If I could characterise the multi-year performance of this issues it would best be summed up by the word drift. The only real stand out in recent times has been the performance of Aluminium and Uranium. Click the chart below for…
Gold….Maybe Not The End Of The World
First a personal disclaimer – I am short gold and have been for sometime. However, something about the current market action intrigues me and my interest is catalysed by the comments that surround gold from both bulls and bears. Of late bearish articles regarding gold have been in the ascendency with predictions that gold might…
Forex Investors May Face $1 Billion Loss
I have to admit that for some reason I find it hard to feel sorry for these people. It is a sad event that people are conned out of their hard earned money. However, you have to posses a remarkable naivety to believe that someone else can make you 1% per day on your capital.…
Can Money Buy You Happiness?
At the risk of sounding crass – f@3k yes…… It’s an age-old question: Can money buy happiness? Over the past few years, new research has given us a much deeper understanding of the relationship between what we earn and how we feel. Economists have been scrutinizing the links between income and happiness across nations, and…
‘YES!’ Moves you ‘No’ doesn’t…
I thought you may like to see a great article from my friend Rik Schnabel. If you like it, and you’d like to subscribe to his newsletter (where I swiped this article from – with his permission, of course… click here). ‘YES!’ Moves you ‘No’ doesn’t… It’s amazing how just one tiny, two letter word…
