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It's very difficult for any single individual/entity to beat index returns. For anyone who has some money set aside, the advice, "Put it in an index fund" is sage. Very few mutual funds beat index returns in a given year. Over many years, almost none do. The average investor does not have ...
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The recent Swiss ban on the construction of new minarets is a very regrettable event, and the only Swiss voter I personally know is furious about it. It's a good example of how socially destructive even apparently benign regulations like building permits can be: now it's a huge political issue ...
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One of the common laments from pro-Vietnam War commentators is that "We lost the war at home." Militarily, it wasn't as if the Vietcong were on the verge of overrunning a panicking Saigon or anything... The problem was that the US public lost the political will to continue the fighting. The ...
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There is going to be a great deal of discussion in the coming weeks about the climate change negotiations to be held in Copenhagen later this month. Almost without notice, however, there could be technological changes brewing which have a much greater impact on carbon emissions than any treaty ...
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FAITH AND HERESY
Here is what I believe is the only way the stock market can keep returning 10% a year despite everyone knowing it returns 10% a year: everyone doesn't actually "know" it returns 10% a year.
To clarify, I think everyone does "know" this fact much of the time; let's call ...
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Arnold Kling writes ...
Reread the last sentence in the quote. When you read "that logic," what is meant is the law of supply and demand. It's a good thing that Congress doesn't vote on whether to accept the logic of gravity.
...in response to a quote about Democrats' implied disbelief ...
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The local news had some advice on what to do if you're caught in a stampede while shopping Friday. I don't know whether to be proud or disgusted.
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Let me see if I can restate my question.
A) If it were known that historically, the market rises 10%, on average, in the first week of December, people would begin to buy stocks well in advance of December. This would push prices up. By the time the first week of December came around, there ...
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(Cross-posted from http://fare.livejournal.com/149824.html )
Many libertarians, after Rothbard, start from the (correct) assumption that one's government is one's first and most direct enemy, to the conclusion that one should always side with the enemies of one's current oppressor. ...
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I've been thinking a lot about stock market efficiency lately. When I say "efficiency" I mean the ability of the stock market to factor in information relevant to the price of stocks very quickly. One related aphorism is, "Buy the rumor, sell the news." In other words, well before any ...
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CSI 300 Index
This would be a tragedy greater than the direct effects of all of the tyrants in world history combined. Agree or disagree?
Regards, Don
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Global Downturn
Remember the incident in which airport security questioned someone for carrying a lot of cash and he recorded the conversation on his iPhone? Looks like the TSA has changed its rules as a result.
The new rules, issuedin September and October, tell officers "screening may not be conducted to ...
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I keep holding out hope that this story is some sort of bizarre hoax. Via Alex Massie:
A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".
Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown ...
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Day Trader
I haven't really been following this story, but Mary Theroux has a great post on a high-school gang rape and the lamentable lack of consequences for the school authorities:
A few weeks ago a 16 year old high school girl was gang-raped for a period of over two hours in a poorly-lit courtyard ...
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The talk around the NFL is about New England Patriots' head coach Bill Belichick's decision on Monday night . For those who haven't heard, his team was up by 6 points with about two minutes left in the game. It was 4th and 2 from their own 30 yard line. In other words, almost everyone making ...
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Over at FR33 Agents , Pambas! asks, "Is it possible to own a radio frequency ?" :
Here is the scenario:
A have a broadcasting station, from which he decide to broadcast in the 100 Mhz frequency music and talk-shows, or whatever cruise is mind. The station can broadcast in a radius if 25 ...
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The father swiveled his head and made eye contact with me, presumably in search of proximate allies, but I didn’t give him the satisfaction of laughing with him. Instead, I curled my mouth downward and narrowed my eyes, making sure my disgust for him and his Morlockian broodclan was ...
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The Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago today. This was part of a longer chain of events leading to the demise of communism as a worldwide phenomenon. Watch here. Jubilation like that gives me goose bumps.
On a personal note, I was a child of seven living in West Germany during this very ...
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Patri provides a solid analogy to illustrate the basic economic mechanisms behind Seasteading on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
