Stock Market
We’ve Got to Get Ahold of Ourselves
Stock MarketMen, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Read More
All the News That’s Fit for Bubblevision
EconomyBy reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. Read More
Imperial Arbitrage
InvestmentsGreat empires are not maintained by timidity. – Tacitus, Histories (c. Read More
On Strange Bedfellows
InvestmentsIndeed, only what does not have a tangible measure can easily be exaggerated in importance. Read More
The Guns of January
EconomyEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Read More
Santa Powell
Stock MarketThis is probably the last real trading day before Christmas; things are going to be very slow next week. Read More
One Good Ponzi Deserves Another
EconomyA turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe. Read More
First Gifts of the Holiday Season
Stock MarketI love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. Read More
The Buyback Debate
Stock MarketFor the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and Read More
