Five things I learned this week: Feb 23rd 2013

I am a big fan of Ray Dalio, and the second interview on this page (on CNBC) is phenomenal. As you’d expect … More

Book Summary: Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

Book: Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits Author: Philip Fisher I need to get this out of the way. This is … More

FT had an analysis last week about Emerging Market’s “original sin”–inability to raise debt in its own currency, something that … More

Book: Buffett Author: Roger Lowenstein The first book that I read on Buffett was Snowball, which was very interesting as … More

I was watching a documentary about corn when I learned that corn has 32,000 genes compared to 20,000 for humans, … More

Last week I was saying that the game is over when I next hear about PIK financing. Well, PIK financing … More

Market Risk Premium is measured in many different ways, including methods like surveying the client base (one of the methodologies … More

The Vanity Fair article The Hunt for “Geronimo” is a very interesting account of the decision making process behind the raid. I … More

I hadn’t heard about one of the measures of central tendency of a data range — “mid range”. Turns out, … More

Steel makes up for 95% of the world’s metal production (<$300B market), compared to $3T market for crude. For the … More