

Apparently Undergraduate Finance Students Believe in ESP
This explains a lot about many of the people I have met…. Fourth-year finance students in Barcelona have no clue about the independence of coin tossing events. FYF students like to play mind games with their professors. FYF students believe in telekinesis. FYF students believe in supernatural forecasting abilities. (N.B. This would explain much Wall…
What You Should Focus On
I get these nifty little graphics dropped into my in box once a week. You can subscribe to them via Behaviour Gap
New Porsche 991 GT3. First Drive
Never my favourite Porsche – magnificent for track days and perfect tarmac but the first time you go over a tram line or tram track it feels as if your left kidney is going to dribble out your nose. And for the idiot money they would want locally I would opt for the new Cayman…
Time For A New Desk
If you are in the market for a new desk or any sort of funky furniture check out the creations from MotoArt They fashion furniture from old aircraft parts. Below is one I fancy from the wing of an old B-25 bomber. They also have a fabulous collection of nose art.
Analysts
Wall Street relies on “stock analysts.” These are people who do research on companies and then, no matter what they find, even if the company has burned to the ground, enthusiastically recommend that investors buy the stock. They are just a bunch of cockeyed optimists, those stock analysts. When the Titanic was in its death…
Hi Ho Hi Ho Its Off To Sydney I Go
I am off to the Sydney Trading and Investing Expo for the weekend where LB will be presenting something logical and sensible and I will be wondering around embarrassing brokers. So for those of you in Sydney who are either not busy deciding what colour G-String to wear the next Mardi Gras or recovering from…
Hedge Funds Can Now Advertise To The General Public
I have two contenders today for the stupidest regulatory idea of the day and the stupidest quote of the year. The stupidest regulatory idea is undoubtedly allowing hedge funds to advertise to the general public and the far and away club house leader for stupidest quote of the day is from Bob Rice the managing…
Mindfulness
A good mate sent me this presentation and whilst it is directed at the medical profession its message is universal
We May Have Another Contender
That is if it ever reached Australia at a vaguely reasonable price. The pricing of such cars locally is a rip off on a galactic scale – you can feel the colonoscopy (sans lube) going in every time you buy one. The only honest response I have heard from a car dealer regarding their local…