Alternative investments or hedge funds line the pockets of the well connected, not the public sector retirees that invest in them. Politicians like alt investments because they connect them with the monied class. I like the idea of investing public sector pension money in risk free Treasuries. But the Federal Reserve’s zero percent interest rate […]
Moneyball is Back
One of the great books on investing is not about investing in stocks. It’s about investing in baseball players. The now well-known strategy discussed in Michael Lewis’ Moneyball tells how A’s GM Billy Beane created an edge by using statistics overlooked by other managers. The league has since caught up to Beane but there may […]
SXSW: Edward Snowden Live from Russia
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin, TX this week featured guest speaker (via video conference) Edward Snowden. The NSA exposing Snowden’s appearance, as Cato’s Gene Healy points out in his weekly DC Examiner column, wasn’t without some controversy. According to Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan. Snowden’s “only apparent qualification is his willingness to steal from his own […]
Midterms: Obamacare Hurts
Democrats have thrown everything at Obamacare including Alex Sink. She felt Obamacare was fixable. But the Democratic candidate for Florida’s 26th Congressional District lost yesterday. And she’s not the only Democrat running on a “we can fix it” (with no solutions) campaign. Stay tuned as Cato’s Michael Tanner observes: The same purposeful vagueness can be found […]
Investing to Win the War
In my close to 20 years working with investors I have found gauging one’s risk tolerance is more art than science. There are models galore that will give you an “appropriate” allocation for your age, income needs etc. But often times that’s thrown out the window when times get tough. And tough they have gotten, for […]
The Big Money Buying Votes
Unions are the big money in politics. It’s foolish to think otherwise as The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel points out here: Mr. Reid was quite agitated on the Senate floor about “unlimited money,” by which he must have been referring to the $4.4 billion that unions had spent on politics from 2005 to 2011 […]
Taxpayer Funded SNAP, CACFP, and What?
The problem with so call conservative politicians is that they still think government is the answer. Congressman Paul Ryan does a solid job pointing out our government welfare madness but in a recent report he offers up little in terms of free market solutions. The first place for so called government reformers should be to […]
Don’t Tread on My Checkbook
The Tea Party used to be laser focused on calling out the big spenders in Washington. But the TP lost its way in the rat’s nest of social issues. The TP would be better served if it focused first on fiscal responsibility. There’s plenty of ways to cut up that pig. Cato scholar Michael Tanner […]
Samuel Adams’ Party
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”–Samuel Adams Where is the Tea Party? Yes it got the target right in big government as Cato’s Gene Healy points out in his weekly piece in the DC Examiner. But […]
How to Make $175,000
Making money and saving money is hard. But if you have some money and some time then you can do some amazing things like compounding your money or what Albert Einstein referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. But compounding can work both ways. Carrying credit card debt at predatory rates month after […]
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