Posts Tagged ‘ risk ’

A Beautiful Risk

Jul 27th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
We hadn’t intended to write a movie review today, but after seeing Risk! we had no choice. We recently featured an article by Laissez Faire Books business manager Doug Hill on the movie,  but we’d had yet to see the movie ourselves. Now that we have seen the movie, we feel ...read more

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Federal Punishment for Risk

Jul 22nd, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
“We have to have some more faith in the free market to produce innovation,” says Gary Shapiro, in the soon-to-be released documentary Risk!. Faith in the free market isn’t something that the United States has a lot of right now – with government stepping in with bailouts, stimulus packages and the ...read more

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How to Profit on the Road to National Serfdom

Jul 6th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
We’re fast approaching the critical 1,040 “support” on the S&P 500 – below which technical analysts tell us there is a dark abyss that includes a retest of the March 2009 lows. The idea goes: If the S&P falls below 1,040, then we’re likely to revisit the lows below 700. Who ...read more

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Getting Prepared for the Best Short Market in Years

Jun 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Be Prepared for the Best Short Market in Years Shorting stock is probably one of the most unusual ways to make money on Wall Street. And I think the best way to explain it is with a story. Say a friend lets you borrow his brand-new car for an extended time. So ...read more

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Bank Accounting Fudges Loan Losses

Aug 13th, 2009 | By | 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 | 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 | 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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