Posts Tagged ‘ risk ’

Bank Accounting Fudges Loan Losses

Aug 13th, 2009 | By Dan Amoss | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Investors often assume dangerous, unnecessary risks by owning stocks on the basis of sloppy economic and financial analysis. For each stock you own, you should frequently reassess the reasons for owning it. Also, you need to remain on the lookout for signals that the future operating environment for a particular ...read more

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Risk-Taking Traders Born Not Made

Jan 23rd, 2009 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
A recent dispatch from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences didn’t give us the next big development in stem cell therapies.  It didn’t tell us how the car of 2020 will be powered.  Instead, John Coates and his team of Cambridge researchers turned the powerful lens of science ...read more

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Mindless Risk Taking

Jan 8th, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Economics, Featured
Satyajit Das’s book, Traders, Guns & Money, opens with a great anecdote about a meeting with an Indonesian noodle company. The noodle men were “Indonesians of Chinese extraction,” Das writes. “They were part of the infamous ‘bamboo network’ of ethnic Chinese business interests that crisscrossed South East Asia.” The noodle ...read more

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