Old School Cool
Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and David Bowie at Cafe Royale 1973
Which Character Strengths Are Most Predictive of Well-Being?
Click on the pic to be taken to the article. Source – Scientific American
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ETF Liquidity Risk
So I finally got off my fat arse and updated the ETF table I produced a week or so ago. This time I added, last price, daily turnover and dollar liquidity. To calculate daily liquidity I simply multiplied the last price by the average 3 months volume as defined by Yahoo. This gives a fairly…
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Conquering Complexity With Simple Rules
What do burglars, Stanford’s football team, and Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen have in common? They all use simple rules to help them navigate complex challenges, according to a new book by Stanford professor Kathleen Eisenhardt. Many burglars follow just one rule that significantly lowers their risk of getting caught — they pass on houses where…
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How Creativity Works in the Brain
I have embedded this report above but you can also download a pdf from here – National Endowment For the Arts.
60 Years Old And Still Motoring
Bloody hell
Beware Of The Bubble In Stock Market Bubble Warnings
From my WTF file….. A warning to the bulls, however: Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the absence of bubble-like conditions means that a bear market couldn’t begin. That mistake would be the functional equivalent of the one made by sloppy-thinking commentators who ascribe “bubble” to anything they think might decline. It’s entirely possible for a…
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Audi R8 2016
I was also reading a review of this bus in one of my car mags. In the review they have a small cut away box that lists the vital statistics of the car and the data box ends with a Pro’s and Con’s section and one of the drawbacks they listed was that it was…
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