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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012This quote comes from a book titled The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good to Be True*, which was reviewed in today’s WSJ: “If all the money that’s ever been invested in hedge funds had been put in Treasury bills instead, the results would have been twice as [...]
Steve Jobs Legacy: Higher E-Book Prices
Thursday, December 15th, 2011Since posting about e-book prices a couple of times, I have been following the story. Today’s WSJ had a front page article about e-book prices. For those of you not familiar with what’s going on, e-book prices have been going up over the last year or so. In some cases, e-book prices are higher than [...]
And the Winner of “Exile on Wall Street” is…
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011This is a first. The randomly-selected winner of the latest AFM giveaway winner was commenter #1, Laurie Smith. This is the first time in my 7 years of blogging that the first commenter was randomly selected for any giveaway. Congrats to Laurie. For those of you who didn’t win, I still highly recommend Exile on [...]
A Review of Mike Mayo’s “Exile on Wall Street” (and GIVEAWAY)
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011I received a copy of Mike Mayo’s Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst’s Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves* a week and a half ago. As the title suggests, the book is about his experience as a securities analyst covering banks. First things first. Who is Mike Mayo? According to the inside flap [...]
Three Books I’m Working on Right Now
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011In the last two days I have received three books from Wiley. All three look like great reads. They are (all affiliate links)… Great read so far. I’ll review once I’m finished (hopefully Friday). Ken Fisher’s latest. Looks interesting. Again, another interesting-looking read. I look forward to reading them all. Fortunately, all of them are [...]
How Much More Expensive (Premium-Wise) is Permanent Insurance Than Term Insurance?
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011I read this in The Ultimate Financial Plan: Balancing Your Money and Life* in the chapter on life insurance: “Although the benefits of permanent life insurance exist, the costs must also be weighed. I recently replaced one of my term life insurance policies with a new policy bearing a $1 million death benefit and an [...]
The WSJ Looks at E-Book Pricing
Monday, September 12th, 2011This morning’s WSJ took a look at E-book pricing. If you own a Kindle or Nook, you have probably noticed that E-Books have gotten quite pricey. Here’s why: …e-book prices on many new national best sellers are higher today than they were at the start of last year. That’s because the six major publishers have [...]
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