It isn’t often that a TedTalk provokes actual belly laughter. Snickers yes, sometimes an appreciative titter. But outright guffaws? I can’t remember too many, and certainly not sustained through an entire presentation. Ursus Wehrli managed it, in a talk filmed in February 2006 but only recently u...

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Some things never change. I remember going through almost exactly this line of reasoning not once but twice, for different girls, about 40 years ago. In neither case did things work out the way I wanted. In one, things worked out very much the way she wanted, which was and is great. In the other...

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I've got a bunch of things that I want to write scribbled as notes but haven’t had the luxury of uninterrupted time to do something with them. But I also wanted to get something done, so I took the lazy route of appropriating a meme. ¹ I saw this one over at Byzantium's Shores, where Jaquandor d...

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I‘ve changed the agreement in Tom Barnett‘s headline (above) because his use of the plural just sounds plain wrong to me (and I am not alone). And I am reprinting here, in full, a piece I intended only to share, because there‘s something very wrong with the permalink. ¹ So here is the piece:

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'The Lomas Financial Corp. is a perfectly hedged financial institution: It loses money in every conceivable interest-rate environment.'

"When I read it, I thought, Oh my God. This is like owning a gold mine. When I read that, I was the only guy in the equity world who almost had an orgasm."

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