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A Brilliant Couplet
One need not share Arnold Klings view on the particular issue. However, I think one must appreciate the cleverness of his rhetoric. One view of the Japanese stimulus (or multiple stimuli) is that it (they) failed because it was (they were) too small. Just as the reason that in World War I all British...
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The key ingredient
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.-Benjamin Graham Download article as PDF
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When to be confident
You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right. -Benjamin Graham Download article as PDF
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That Dangerous Reed
“The four most dangerous words in investing are ‘This time it’s different.’”-Sir John Templeton Made more dangerous by the fact that occasionally, in some respects, it is. On that thin reed much damage has been done to investors. Download article as PDF
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On Valuation
The word ‘heresy’ not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word ‘orthodoxy’ not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. -GK Chesterton Download article as PDF
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The Wildness Lies in Wait
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...
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This time it is different
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. - GK Chesterton Download article as PDF
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Now is when investors can separate
The whole world of economics is enormously more complex than the world of physics. And therefore the teaching of business schools, including Yale’s, is unrealistic. Even though economics is a very old subject, it has not truly come to grips with the main difficulty, which is the inordinate practical importance of a few extreme...
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Finding Bottoms
Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows. -Jim Rogers Download article as PDF
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