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The ant and the grasshopper

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Finance, Philosophy
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Everybody should be familiar with the ant and the grasshopper fable. If not, let me briefly summarize it: There’s an ant and a grasshopper. The ant works hard preparing for winter. The grasshopper does not. When winter comes, the grasshopper is cold and starving. What the ant decides after that depends on the version of […]

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Great book for analysing real estate (and stocks)

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Finance
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I just wanted to share a great book on real estate evaluation which was shared in the ERE forums (I forget which thread). The principles transfer fairly well to stock analysis as well. This is perhaps one of the few books on investing which isn’t dumped down and thus doesn’t assume that addition and multiplication […]

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Complexity

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Finance, Strategy
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The biosphere is a complex coupled system and by coupled I mean that parts of it affects other parts which affect the first part back and so on. By complex I mean that the details are not or can not be known. Such system can be analyzed in their equilibrium configuration, basically one removes the […]

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