Dr Suess

I regard Dr Suess as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Today was good. Today was…

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RIMM….ed

I have always been interested in why companies with a once dominant position in the market place manage to screw it up completely and then disappear For example,  Kodak who invented the digital camera being put out of business by the digital camera. Research in Motion (RIMM) were the creators of the Blackberry which was…

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Nice Work If You Can Get It

It’s good to be a successful alternative investments manager, as demonstrated by the generous sprinkling of their names in this year’s Forbes 400 ranking of the richest Americans. But it may be even better to be a retired (or semi-retired) alternative investments manager. The top two hedge-fund names on Forbes’ annual list have both stopped…

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