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The Greek philosopher Aristotle (348 BC - 322 BC) was a renowned polymath, who studied everything that could be studied at the time. He is [...]

I was at Grant's Interest Rate Observer a couple years ago listening to the end of the world. Seriously, EVERYONE was ultra bearish. And EVERYONE [...]

I often get insightful questions from readers. A recent question was as follows: ...applied works most often exclude Financials and Utilities in their universe under [...]

Jim Simons, the founder of Renaissance Technologies, gave in 2010 a fascinating talk at MIT entitled, “Mathematics, Common Sense, and Good Luck: My Life and [...]

Compounding My Interests has a great post highlighting some wisdom from Charlie Munger--a TRULY great investor. The money shot: Another very simple effect I very [...]

It always pays to focus on what you can get for free, but this is especially true for investing. In this Part 2 of our "Focus [...]

First, a detailed analysis of the S&P 500 equal-weight index against the S&P 500 value-weight index from Jan 1963 through September 2013: The equal-weight S&P [...]

Too bad dissertation length doesn't translate into more pay. History professors would be rich! Source: http://beckmw.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/how-long-is-the-average-dissertation/ Here is my completely non-scientific anecdotal economic [...]

First, you gotta read Warren Buffett's classic piece from 1999: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/22/269071/ Buffett highlights the inextricable tie between GDP growth and corporate profits. GDP growth is [...]

Here are the articles we've posted for the past week on TurnkeyAnalyst.com for the week ended Saturday, November 2nd 2013. Article description and associated link: Focus [...]

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Milton Friedman famously opined that “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” We beg to disagree. For all of us trying to compound [...]

Commodities are an interesting asset class. A classic case of "Wall Street Trend following:" Sell products that have recently done extremely well. Prior to the [...]

Option 1: Collect weapons, build a militia, and move forward with a revolution. Training sucks. Good shot at dying. Destroys capital and brainpower Option 2: [...]

Quantitative investing has developed an unjustified PR problem based on the unfortunate tendency of many to associate all quantitative approaches with “Black Box” investing. The [...]

Here are the articles we've posted for the past week on TurnkeyAnalyst.com for the week ended Saturday, October 26th 2013. Article description and associated link: Man [...]

A friend sent a really great video of a robot rocking the high bar. I decided to piece together a video and have a little [...]