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I conclude that CBS is trading at a significant discount to its fair-market value. There is an opportunity to make a significant gain in a r

Despite a couple of flaws, this book is worth reading and I even found it worth giving as a gift. First the flaws:

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This book by David F. Swensen, Chief Investment Officer and manager of Yale’s endowment, contains some of the driest prose I have ever encou

This article on attaining independent wealth is one of

You can try this puzzle online.

From <a href=”http://www.economist.

Wired picked up the story mentioned previously in Transcendental Generali

In this Washington Post article (registra

The San Francisco Chronicle had an <a href=”http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/08/BUG7IGJHEK1.DTL&typ

The New York Times has an <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/business/yourmoney/08view.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1136844578-qj+Slk9Zf/m8

For the first third or so of this book by Arundhati Roy, nothing much happens. However, with an unconventional writing style that is light a

InvestorGeeks had a <a href=”http://www.investorgeeks.com/articles/2005/12/30/inverted-yield-curv

The Washington Post had a couple of good columns on what’ s in store for the economy in 2006. One from <a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.c

Having followed the financial performance of two superb businesses, namely Starbucks (ticker symbol SBUX) and Bed Bath & Beyond (ticker symb

A number of recent articles have suggested a connection between Alzheimer’s Disease and Diabetes. Art De Vany summarized the connection in h

PBS’s Nightly Business Report on December 23rd interviewed an expert on closed-end funds. Like

This article made me laugh. The performanace of algorithms for fingerprint

Lest anyone doubt that the meanings of words are subject to change under the influence of socioeconomic forces, <a href=”http://www.npr.org/

This Morning Edition article about the invention of colored bubbl

The New York Times had a nice editorial (registr

Peter Drucker, in his autobiography, <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=transcenden05-20&camp=1789&creati

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Recently, I decided it makes sense to track economic indicators, their respective effects on various industries, and their trends. Such info

Jon Markman had an <a href=”http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P1