Archive for November, 2012

Luck vs. Skill: The Whitman Example

I knew folks at eBay while it was going through the steep part of the hockey stock — which is SiliconValley-ese for growing like all get out, the imagery being based on the shape of a graph of the revenues (and hopefully profits) of a company experiencing hyper-growth, with dollars […]

It’s Not Like Going to the Dentist

I talk about human nature a lot in here. I must, because, if your goal is to help people improve their overall financial health — as mine is — then your route lies through at least one human being, and that human being is chock-full of human nature. Most often […]

How Hard is it to Build a Terrible Portfolio?

Over the years I’ve noticed that most people’s 401k plan portfolios tend to do about the same — they tend to pretty closely track the market as a whole, and ultimately each other, especially if given enough time. Many of these plans tend to offer a middle-of-the-road menu of mutual […]

Five Thankings

Some thinkings on thankings:   1. Politics. I’m grateful that the election came out the way it did, with pretty much every close call going the Dems’ way (yesterday Allen West began what I hope is his soldier’y fade-away, and may it please be quick). To look at just a […]

Friedman’s Law of the First Thing, as Applied to Income Taxes: Marginal Tax Brackets

Friedman’s Law of the First thing says that, for each aspect of your financial life, you should know, at least, the first thing about it. Now, it might be that some of you should know, or might benefit handily from knowing, the second, third, fourth and even the x’th thing about […]

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