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As as poster who posts more in the off-topic, I say keep it, it adds more to the community and as has been pointed out can be easily ignored by clicking on the Fund Discussions category.
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I'm halfway through Michael Lewis's recent book "Boomerang: Travels in the new third world." So far the book has a chapter on Iceland and another on Greece. It is a hilarious read where he relates his investigations on the crises affecting these…
First things first. Since Junior lives in Trinidad, has he ever seen an oilbird (native to Trinidad). ... only nocturnal fruit eating birds in the world. They forage at night, navigating by echolocation in the same way as bats. They used to be har…
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Mo said:
Of course any source can be wrong. But the difference in all the media you sight [sic] is, that you at least are likely to know who is wrong when you find errors. By my making this change, no one knows who did it [sic], or even that the cha…
I was reading a book the other day and the person was talking about clouds and the study of them citing it as nephrology. I was wondering to myself did the clouds look kidney-shaped or did the person not know the difference between nephology and ne…
I think all of us can empathize with your tragic loss and unrealized capital gain - "dusty comic books purged before reaching maximal value"
You probably won't read this book, I did a few years ago.
The ten-cent plague: the great comic book scare a…
This has stumped mankind for eons. There is no known solution to this dilemma. It's like the alchemists transmuting lead into gold. Once gold, always gold.
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ETF Valuation Quickrank which gives a quick overview of the market sectors our analysts think are cheap or expensive: http://quicktake.morningstar.com/etfnet/quickrank.aspx This is an …
Nice work Chip.
Thanks everybody for giving me some new ideas. I've added a few of your suggestions to my reading list. Keep'em coming.
I'm going to do overdo this and add some more books I really enjoyed just in case it will give some of you …
Reply to @InformalEconomist:
After Horizontal Everest
you might try these
Fatal mountaineer : the high-altitude life and death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan legend / Robert Roper
True summit : what really happened on the legendary ascent …
Reply to @Mark:
I saw the movie about him. Got my fill of the ordeal.
Zen and Now - not great - but if you want the back-story, gossip and a big fan of the original. The only reason I read it was to refresh my mind on the book I read 2 decade…
Reply to @David_Snowball:
Thanks for validating this ot thread. I'll check out some of your recs.
I read "How to be Idle / Tom Hodgkinson ", I'll have to see the companion book :)
The pleasures of reading sounds good as does the The Clumsiest P…
Reply to @hank:
If I were to pick my one favorite book (it's quite weird and fantastical, so you have to like that and you have to get beyond the first 100 pages which are tough)
The Master and Margarita/ Mikhail Bulgakov
there is also a 6-8 hour…
Reply to @Mark:
I want to read Life.
Dylan's book was excellent
Chronicles:volume one / Bob Dylan
have you seen this (pretty good a follow-up on the author nd some background)
Zen and Now:On the trail of robert Pirsig and the art of motorcycle…
Reply to @tgeno:
you might like these:
great book on how china changed in the last 10 years. All of Hessler's books are quite good.
Country Driving: A journey through China from farm to Factory Peter Hessler
Troost has a few books out that prov…
Reply to @DPN:
When all else fails, it is sometimes not too bad of an idea to call up the company and speak to a rep. Generally, people who work for the company know the ins and outs (although sometimes they need a bit of coaching).
Many compa…
Reply to @msf:
A digression of thread - Speaking of Mutual Series Funds - they seemed to be alot less volatile when Max Heine was at the helm.
I think it got progressively worse through each manger change. What do you think of MUTHX Mutual Shares…
Reply to @Junior:
I occasionally use morningstar, I usually just read all the info on a particular fund I'm interested in.
I don't look at anything specifically, just take it all in. I used to test sample portfolios and look at sector weights and…
Here is my understanding of back button:
My observations:
Back button allows users to retrace their steps through a hierarchy of information.
The history cache of the browser is served without an additional request to the server.
The discussion b…
