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Risk – Part I: Why We Owe It to Drugs
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change…” Leo Buscaglia nailed it...
View ArticleFiguring Out How To Die… Happily
…so that we can live happily. There’s a lot of retired people where I live. It’s just a function of what people choose to do when they’ve spent their life working, and then finally, once they have the...
View ArticleThe Tick Is Clocking For Social Media Giants
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter. That’s over 350,000 tweets a minute, and 500 million tweets each day, or around 200 billion tweets per year. It’s a lot. Turning to...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Timeframe, Bro?
My son’s a faster sprinter than me. That’s bloody depressing. He’s only a teenager for God’s sake. He’s only just clipped me after years of it being a non-contest. But now the little sods nudged ahead…...
View ArticleRecency Bias: How Investors Are Going To Get Screwed – Again!
While indulging in a most delicious barbecued steak washed down by a lovely South African red a couple weeks ago a friend was telling me about a recent seminar he attended. As a senior executive at a...
View ArticleSocial Inequality – Eat The Rich. THIS is How We Get There
A popular story told is that inequality is a bad thing and brings social discontent. That’s the wrong way to look at it. Inequality itself isn’t the problem. In fact I’d say it’s necessary for society...
View ArticleBecoming A Mineral Mastermind
In the early 1930’s a group of somewhat crusty professors spent their Tuesday mornings mulling about at an unassuming pub on St. Giles Street in Oxford, England. In addition to the inevitable beer and...
View ArticleMacro Hedge Funds: Creating The Right Mix of Assets
I have a friend. He’s a gold bug. He’s also…how do I say this? Eccentric! I went around to his house recently and he showed me this gold bar. He’s using it as a door stop. I mean it looks like what it...
View ArticleWhat Does Your Investment Portfolio Diet Look Like?
If eliminating carbs and sugars from your diet would help you shed that spare tyre, in oh…say two weeks, you’d be motivated to commit to saying nein to that pizza and cheesecake, right? Wrong. After...
View ArticleSimple Not Easy
I haven’t been sick in over three years. Nothing, not a sniffle, not a cough – nada. Strong as an ox I tell my wife. And so, naturally, I am immune from anything dodgy. The terminator of sickness if...
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