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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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