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Beware of Falling Lemmings
The Day in Trading: Flash Crash of Thurs May 6th. I found this graph over on the Toronto Stock Exchange blog (link in sidebar) and I couldn’t help but laugh. What a spectacular visualization of the...
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Gender Imbalance and Chinese Savings Rate
In my quest to fill the void left by Tom Keene and Bloomberg on the Economy, I’ve been listening to a variety of other podcasts. The majority of them are bland, boring, and lack the wit and one-liners...
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Nearly Everything I Learned about Investing I Learned from My Father
My father is not an investor or “bank guy” by any means. But thinking back upon childhood and beyond, I realize that a good amount of the things that are important to investing, are the same simple...
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Rice Field Art and Your Portfolio
Since 1993, rural farmers in the north of Japan have been using 4 different kinds of rice to make beautiful images that grow in their fields over the summer. What started out as simple images made by...
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BOJ Intervenes in the F/X Market
By luck, it seems that my recent posts on the carry trade and exchange rates were very timely; the Bank of Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market today, trying to slow or stop the yen’s...
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Smells Like Shoe Polish
My friend and flatmate in my 4th year of university was a geology student. His department had given him some tickets for a dinner and lecture on geology at some geological club in Toronto. Always...
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Nearly Everything I Learned About Investing I Learned From My Father, Revisited
Happy belated Father’s Day to all the Dad’s out there. This is an older post that I have edited, expanded, and added to. My father is not an investor or “bank guy” by any means. But thinking back upon...
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