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The Maleficent 7
The Magnificent Seven is a terrific 1960 movie “western” about seven gunfighters hired to protect a small Mexican village from marauding bandits. A re-make is currently in the works and the “original...
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The Great Myths of Investing
As the great Mark Twain (may have) said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” That’s particularly true in the investment world...
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“That’s What They Offered”
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are strange bedfellows to be sure. But they were the big winners last night when the first primary votes of the 2016 presidential campaign are cast and counted in New...
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A Hierarchy of Advisor Value
I talk often with lots of advisors of all sorts and from a wide variety of firms. They are profoundly disillusioned an astonishingly high amount of the time. When the markets are strong, they are...
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The Jewelry Effect
I’m not a fisherman, but I was fascinated recently to come across an article about the science behind the creation and use of fishing lures. Size, shape, color and even taste all matter. Interestingly,...
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Chris Rock Explains Bias Blindness
When the nominations for the 88th annual Academy Awards were announced this past January and for the second year in a row included no minority nominees for any of the major performance categories, my...
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A Behavioral Finance Playlist
It isn’t “Weird Science” (Oingo Boingo)… …or “Brain Damage” (Pink Floyd)… …or even “Insane in the Brain” (Cypress Hill). It’s utterly human (and I write about it often). We are all deeply flawed. We...
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Confirmation Bias Illustrated
Please watch the video here (it can’t be embedded) and thank me later. “Like, I’m listening to what you’re saying but I only hear what I want to.”
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