Commodities

I have seen a few pieces online in recent weeks predicting the end of the world as we know it because of soaring commodity prices. Some such as Jeremy Grantham one of the founders and Chief Strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO) is predicting a paradigm shift in commodity prices. To quote the opening…

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Well This Sucks

At the mid point meeting of our current mentor program much of the weekend talk was about the current state of the market – no surprise there. If you are a long term trend follower the current market sucks and unfortunately this is simply the nature of the market. There are times when it is…

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7 Suggestions for Scott Adams

Rarely has cartooning thrown up a more insightful individual than Scott Adams. His creation Dilbert the cubicle inhabiting engineer should be compulsory reading for anyone contemplating doing an MBA and his Way of the Weasal is compulsory for anyone who wants understand just WTF most people in business and politics are talking about.   Adams…

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Weekend Reading

• The theory of rockets and parachutes: a primer on US gasoline prices (The Barrel) • What the Mafia teaches about fiscal policy (Olaf Storbeck) • The Bond Vigilante (The Atlantic) • Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education (The Nation) • The great corporate tax swindle (Guardian) • A Crude Guess About The Future…

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Freewill

Excellent piece on free will from Biophilia Free will- solved! A theory of free will. One of the perennial chestnuts of philosophy is the problem of free will. Mostly a problem for theists rather than non-theists, it still holds a few mysteries for everyone. Is our natural intuition of freedom true, that we reign as sovereign…

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