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Many investors believe the financial system is a ponzi scheme. At some level, I can't disagree. But how does one protect against total meltdown of [...]

Yesterday's VIX move was fairly epic. We mapped out the histogram of VIX moves--the chart is surprisingly well behaved. Stare at the chart for a [...]

The most therapeutic way I want to address  overconfidence (probabilities associated with outcomes are bias. For example, I am "90% confident the market will be at 1000 [...]

How cool would you have been yesterday if you walked into a cocktail party or a gaggle of investment professionals and told the group: I [...]

I've been away the past few days drowning in saltwater trying to learn a new sport--kitesurfing. How did this all start? My younger brother lives [...]

Toby has a great post on his blog: http://greenbackd.com/ http://greenbackd.com/2013/01/09/examining-benjamin-grahams-record-skill-or-luck/

Always fun to read the source document: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr8eas/pdf/BILLS-112hr8eas.pdf Amazing how many carve outs and special interest deductions there are in the tax code. Would anyone [...]

Today is the first day our book is available via all outlets where books are sold. Toby, a co-author, has a great post on the [...]

I spent a few hours writing up a post mapping out the likelihood of 2-3% real returns over the next 15 years... Then Meb posts [...]

Readers, The manual of ideas has a great concept cooking--web-based investor conferences. The same value as the expensive conferences at a fraction of the costs. [...]

http://healthyhungryhappy.com/ This is a bit of shameless promotion, but I like to support entrepreneurs--they make the world go round and have the courage to "get in [...]