Sex-Deprived Male Fruit Flies Turn to Alcohol, Research Shows
And the surprise is?
Jim Rogers
“Most of us don’t have the discipline to stay focused on a single goal for five, ten, or twenty years, giving up everything to bring it off, but that’s what’s necessary to become an Olympic champion, a world class surgeon, or a Kirov ballerina. Even then, of course, it may be all in vain. You…
DetailsThe Man Who Broke Atlantic City
Johnson is very good at gambling, mainly because he’s less willing to gamble than most. He does not just walk into a casino and start playing, which is what roughly 99 percent of customers do. This is, in his words, tantamount to “blindly throwing away money.” The rules of the game are set to give…
DetailsDodgy Stat Of The Day
For some idiotic reason I wanted to find out the trajectory of funds under management within the superannuation industry. You would think that data that had such national significance would be easy to find….guess again. To get some inkling of the way funds under management had been growing in the past decade I had to…
DetailsI Have Always Been A Fan Of Henry’s
Henry Rollins letter to a young American
Investor Inattention During FIFA World Cup Matches
An odd little paper that someone obviously got a grant for. The Pitch Rather than the Pit: Investor Inattention During FIFA World Cup Matches At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention.…
DetailsRally Continues
This remains a broad based rally – the interesting thing is the number of pundits who are still denying its existence.
DetailsNASDAQ Then And Now
Interesting little graphic from the WSJ changes in the composition of the index over the past decade.
