Risk and Return

I have been busy getting prepared for our yearly investment conference, which we completed last week, and now the implementation phase, but I will try and get back to posting more regularly over the next few days. Please keep checking in. As all the work preparing for, and acting on, our new asset allocation for [...]

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The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little [...]

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In the annals of excruciating misery during wartime, few events can compare with what befell Napoleon’s troops during his campaign in Russia. From Strange Maps we see the suffering and tragedy in graphic statistical form. (click image to enlarge)

“The best statistical graphic ever drawn“, is how statistician Edward Tufte described this chart in his [...]

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Tyler Cowen wants to know:
Eli Lehrer informs me that Tide has a high market share even though it is more expensive than most other brands. This source says the market share of Tide is about forty-four percent, with the sum total of all Proctor and Gamble products (Gain and Cheer are two others) accounting [...]

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John Ellis thinks it might:
The company that has the most to gain from buying the New York Times is Google. If it proffered a Murdoch-like, no-auction bid of $4 billion, wouldn’t the Sulzberger family have to accept it? Every single class B shareholder would accept the offer. It’s their only exit. It is also likely [...]

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Thanks for stopping by Risk and Return. For a little background on myself, and my investing perspective, please visit the About page. We’ll start off today with some videos and a little economics humor and one of my favorite short video’s on our changing world, “Shift Happens.” Enjoy!
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glumbert - Shift Happens
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Via Professor Greg Mankiw:
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The [...]

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