The combination of the death of OBL and the overseas selling of silver will make the mornng session a roller coaster ride. Spot silver is already well off its overnigfht bottom, but its a certainty that there will be another selling rush at the open. Cool hands will be buying, as the economics of silver […]
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reflections on state funding for higher education
our cohort is looking at trends in state level funding for higher education and saw Arkansas proposing a plan to tie funding to short term measures of performance like class completion %, which triggered the following reflection on my part during our weekly discussions 1. state legislatures are tied to the annual and biannual budget […]
Excellence at work
Image via Wikipedia I sure wish i had said this: #6: Malcolm Gladwell is right, it takes 10,000 hours. I don’t think I ever appreciated what it takes to just stay current and, in hindsight, never comprehended what it takes to become good. I mean really good. Not to be overly dramatic but. . . […]
Reflective learning in the markets
daily reports attached and some case studies that continue our development of the WMB entry technique (Williams%R, MACD-H, Breakout on candles) (Will Make Bank) Silver rewarded us by holding overnight on a large gap up, and we squeezed another 4-6R out of it, depending on how exits were managed. We saw the relative strength in the […]
Trust the good guys
Image via Wikipedia I think the author is overreacting, Google only wants what’s best for you When Google (and Apple for that matter) tell you that they are not evil, what more evidence do you need? Related articles Is Google Trying To “Sort” Its Users? (lockergnome.com) Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked For Evil Plugins (apple.slashdot.org) Is […]
The opportunity cost of war
Image via Wikipedia This is the economic opportunity cost of fighting speculative wars , not to mention the moral and political issues that should take an even higher precedence in our conciousness. Buying a tank is the worst possible use of a dollar, economically speaking, except perhaps for using it as collateral to leverage up […]