Monday, May 24, 2010

Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberities than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around (the banks) will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

Thomas Jefferson
[Attributed]
3rd president of US
1743 - 1826

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Seth Klarman - Legendary Investor

"The government is now in the business of giving bad advice". "by holding interest rates art zero, the government is basically tricking the population into going long on just about every kind of security except cash, at the price of almost certainly not getting an adquate return for the risks they are running. People can't stand earning 0% on their money, so the government is forcing everyone in the investing public to speculate."

Taken from the Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2010

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology

Behavioral Finance is a relatively recent revolution in finance that applies insights from all of the social sciences to finance. New decision-making models incorporate psychology and sociology, among other other disciplines, to explain economic and financial phenomenom, such as erratic stock price variations. Pyschological patterns such as overconfidence and perceived kinks in the value function seem to impact financial decision-making but are NOT included classical theories such as the Expected Utility Theory.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Financial System Needs to Evolve

How it Evolves will determine how we recover..... and who wins and who loses......

Successful Investing requires a notion of the Future

Recovering from a boom/bust cycle has two components.

1- cyclical forces

2- Evolutionary forces

We believe the second will play a much more significant rile then many realize this time around.

In the Modular 2 out of three doesn't fly.

Are you a modular Citizen...