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Category Archives: Humor
Assorted Links (8/5/2010)
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Nature or nurture: What determines investor behavior www.sciencedirect.com Here’s the abstract from this fascinating article: “Using data on identical and fraternal twins’ complete financial portfolios, we decompose the cross-sectional variation in investor behavior. We find that a genetic factor explains about one-third of the …
Assorted Links (8/2/2010)
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Hurricane Neal: Cat. 5 – Barrons.com online.barrons.com “Rep. Richard Neal’s bill has foreign insurance companies worried.” ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Puts His Money Into ETFs – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Scott Adams uses his ‘Dilbert’ strip to mock actively managed funds and their managers.” Connecticut Probing Pricing of …
A ‘Dilbert’ Guide to Funds
Here’s my favorite quote (and cartoon) from an article which appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “A ‘Dilbert’ Guide to Funds”: “Mr. Adams says that from his perspective as a cartoonist, “there has to be something broken in order to get a joke out of it.” In a series of “Dilbert” comic strips that …
Assorted Links (7/14/2010)
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: For a New Generation, an Elusive American Dream – NYTimes.com www.nytimes.com “In the Nicholson family, America is not delivering for a grandson as it did for his father and grandfather.” NHTSA: No, Toyotas do not Suddenly Accelerate Unless You Press the Accelerator www.theatlantic.com “At …
Assorted Links (7/11/2010)
Paul Berman: What You Can’t Say About Islamism – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In the Wall Street Journal, Paul Berman writes that American intellectuals won’t face up to Muslim radicalism’s Nazi past.” The Case of Apple and the Mysterious Bars – The Numbers Guy – WSJ blogs.wsj.com “Apple’s announcement that its formula for calculating signal bars to …
Assorted Links (7/7/2010)
Q&A: Public vs. Private Equity – Fama/French Forum www.dimensional.com “Asset pricing theory suggests that less liquid assets should have higher expected returns to compensate for lower liquidity. Whether there is in fact a liquidity premium in the returns to private equity is, however, difficult to document. The problem is lack of data on private equity …
Blogging vs. barking…
My dear wife Jan Florence Garven pointed this cartoon out to me today in a magazine that she was reading, so I couldn’t resist the temptation to post it on my blog!
Assorted Links (5/22/2010)
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Report: Majority Of Government Doesn’t Trust Citizens Either Source: www.theonion.com “According to the poll – which surveyed members of the judicial, legislative, and executive branches – 9 out of 10 government officials reported feeling “disillusioned” by the populace and claimed to have “completely lost …