Archive for December, 2010

  • EARLY LOOK: Alberta Bound
    , December 30th, 2010 at 2:11 pm, Comments: 0

    “This piece of heaven that I’ve found; Rocky Mountains and black fertile ground; Everything I need beneath that big blue sky; It doesn’t matter where [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Stubborn Believers
    , December 29th, 2010 at 1:50 pm, Comments: 0

    “This stubbornness in the face of clear data is right up there with the efficient market believers.” -Jeremy Grantham (Quarterly Letter, October 2010) Quite often [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Icy Inflation
    , December 28th, 2010 at 1:24 pm, Comments: 0

    “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” -John Maynard Keynes A [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: The Calm and the Storm
    , December 27th, 2010 at 1:54 pm, Comments: 0

    “They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.” -Dorothy Parker While it’s tempting for a man with an Arctic Cat Pantera snowmobile parked outside [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Taxing Onions
    , December 23rd, 2010 at 2:01 pm, Comments: 0

    “Inflation is taxation without legislation.” -Milton Friedman Ben Bernanke got what he ordered for Christmas – global inflation. While economic news in the US is [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Price Matters
    , December 22nd, 2010 at 2:01 pm, Comments: 0

    “The point is, in investing, price has to matter.” -Howard Marks That’s what Oaktree’s investment chief, Howard Marks, wrote in a recent memo to his [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: The Pain of Rain
    , December 21st, 2010 at 2:43 pm, Comments: 0

    “One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.” –          John Steinbeck Timing is everything in life.  As it relates to my current [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Fashionable Consensus
    , December 20th, 2010 at 2:45 pm, Comments: 0

    “Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.” -Margaret Thatcher You’d think that some of the sell side’s finest would have learned something from being [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: The Golden Haze
    , December 17th, 2010 at 2:37 pm, Comments: 0

    “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” -Albert Einstein Per our friends at Wikipedia, “haze is traditionally an [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: The Enemy of Growth
    , December 16th, 2010 at 2:39 pm, Comments: 0

    “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” -John F. Kennedy I’ve heard a lot about “growth” in recent weeks. After a [...]

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