“Let me say maybe something stark…which is that we have to be willing to embrace unreasonable propositions and unreasonable people in order to make extraordinary findings because the notion that utterly reasonable people doing utterly reasonable things will produce massive…

Successful collectors of investments earn above investment inflation returns, demonstrate discipline in their acquisition plan and do not accept external validation as a top-up payment in lieu of capital return. To my great chagrin, an impressive number of self-declared investment…

In a historic debate, the Roman statesman Cicero was the first to publicly postulate, outside the sphere of mathematics, the transitive property that states if variable a = b and variable b = c, then variable a must equal c.…

“Owning a Single Stock is Riskier than Holding a Basket of Securities, True or False?” The survey challenge question blinked impatiently on my computer screen, waiting for an answer; commissioned by a leading economic advisory firm in conjunction with a…

In my youth, I assembled a fair number of silver and bronze age comics. The items were read sparingly, packed away carefully in several Styrofoam coolers and stored in a cold, dry cellar as I journeyed forth from my parent’s…