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SkepikI commented on an article. 9:50 PM

Ben Bernanke's Advice on Money, Careers, and Intestinal Parasites

Dismayed in general. Perhaps dismayed that the article contains no intestinal parasites....

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SkepikI commented on an article. 4:48 PM

Why You Never Learn From Your Investment Mistakes

awallejr- if you watch humanity critically for a while, particularly "investors" you realize that while most people SAY they learn from their mistakes, they do not. AND if you watch yourself critically for a while you

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SkepikI commented on an article. 4:30 PM

How Has America Fared As an Investor?

Tyler: I had high hopes for this article and read the whole thing, only to be disappointed with the vague analysis, sparse examples and to be blunt complete lack of logic driven conclusions. I was expecting to see maybe a graph of

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SkepikI commented on an article. 1:25 PM

Why You Never Learn From Your Investment Mistakes

Morgan- A pretty good article on an ESSENTIAL topic. Understanding your own psychology, and particularly where your blind spots as well as what I like to think of as "panic points" is key to avoiding investing mistakes. It

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SkepikI commented on an article. 3:00 PM

Joseph Stiglitz on Managing Money Amid Wild Fed Policy

Morgan - once again thanks for the transcript. I would have missed this one but for that, as I refuse to play the videos.... This has a fairly flawed bit of advice and analysis on inflation index bonds: Down a half percent in the

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SkepikI commented on an article. 2:04 PM

Ford Stock Hits a Two-Year High: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

^ And don't underestimate the power of either good management and leadership (ford) OR holding a grudge (GM, Chrysler). The evident result of good strategy and effective execution, results in N. America suggest resolution of Europe

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SkepikI commented on an article. 2:04 PM

Ford Stock Hits a Two-Year High: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

^ And don't underestimate the power of either good management and leadership (ford) OR holding a grudge (GM, Chrysler). The evident result of good strategy and effective execution, results in N. America suggest resolution of Europe

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SkepikI commented on an article. 1:47 PM

Sustainable Profits: Managerial Failure Vs. Visionary Leadership

^^ As long as its really waste reduction and efficiency micro-scoped by a serious and careful attention to detail and economics. Efficiency is its own reward. There is afoot way too much flash and not enough delivery, particularly

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SkepikI commented on an article. 11:30 AM

Why Spotting Bubbles Is So Much Harder Than You Think

"having lived through two bubbles tech and housing" We could play spot the bubble, sort of like whack a mole these days, what with all the manipulation currently in vogue, but its actually more common to look backwards and

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SkepikI commented on an article. 12:11 PM

The Budget Deficit Is Collapsing

Morgan: a 200 billion reduction in a nearly trillion dollar deficit is a collapse? really? Call me when its a 690 Billion reduction and we run a surplus cutting into our extremely burdensome debt. If interest rates normalize, the

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SkepikI commented on an article. 11:58 AM

One-Third of You Think the Economy Is a Mess: Here's What That Tells Us

Morgan: A very fine puzzle and article. Fodder for much thought on my part.

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SkepikI commented on an article. 11:55 AM

One-Third of You Think the Economy Is a Mess: Here's What That Tells Us

The argument over inflation or not will rage on because it is largely in the eye of the beholder, economic and government definitions be damned.... While we have little choice but to rely on government statistics like CPI that does

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