by admin | Sep 27, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
This blog has been around for more than two years, and I thank those who have taken the time to follow it, post comments and critiques, and contribute to its success. I always appreciate when someone takes the time to comment on the blog. Perhaps there haven’t been as...
by admin | Sep 26, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
I am a very big fan of Michael Lewis, beginning with his best seller Liar’s Poker. I was advised to read Moneyball, and as with his other books, found it very well written. And given my lifelong love of baseball, found it quite intriguing: the idea that the...
by admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Since almost the beginning of this blog, I have incorporated clipart, to add color, effect, humor, and sometimes wonder (as you wonder what the heck it’s there for). The selection has always followed the subject, until today.Clipart has the word...
by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
In last weekend’s WSJ, Clint Bolick had a column dealing with Arizona’s struggle with apparently unfair and unnecessary federal government interaction with much of their activities, especially regarding elections. In it he had a statement which hit me as...
by admin | Sep 21, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Surely you’re familiar with the George Santayana line about needing to recall the past to avoid repeating it. This speaks to history, yes?In today’s Wall Street Journal Norm Augustine discusses how history is a subject today’s youth don’t do...
by admin | Sep 16, 2011 | Investment Performance Guy, News
By now you probably heard about a rogue trader who’s cost his employer, UBS, some $2 billion. The bank’s risk management is being questioned, and I won’t say anymore about it at this time.It so happens that another, perhaps more interesting,...
