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Hammers and Hanging Men » Does Happiness Have a Price?
To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc, 8 ounces of Kobe beef and the fabled (notorious) Kopi Luwak coffee. His critique may surprise you. [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Cheesy Quote for 2009
"You were like a bubble - touchable, but untouchable."Happy New Year!-Xuzhu, Perspectives on Life and Love [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » On Manny Pacquiao
I'll take a side step from investing and business.Manny Pacquiao got it at 8th round versus an aging Oscar Dela Hoya. Seems to me that a Pacman match is a national phenomenon already. Kudos to those present politicians - congressmen, mayors, cabinet members, cabinet members wanna-bees, congressman wanna-bees, ex-mayors, ex-cabinet, etc. The support is overwhelming. Knowing that, there's no reason … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Black Swans and Turkey Bankers
Black swans are high impact or significance, hard to predict and very very rare events. Think like 9/11 or world war 3. All the significant events of our lives and the rest of the world, be it good or bad are probably black swans. Think about you winning the lottery or me discovering a cure for uglyness. The world can … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Value Investing Conference 2008 #2
another great hour from a group of learned panelists in the value investing congress."the future is uncertain, and its always a difficult time to invest"-John Griffinmore value investing resources @ http://hammersandhangingmen.blogspo~ multiply:no_crosspost –> [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Value Investing Conference 2008 #1
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Hammers and Hanging Men » Briefings and Forecasts
Last Friday, Citi gathered its CitiGold clients their year-end investors briefing in the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug. It looked like the usual gathering of middle aged to semi retired individuals, mostly filipino-chinese. Everyone was greeted and seated in by their relationship managers, got settled in and helped themselves to a little snack or a meal.One thing i have noticed during … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » The Post Graham Warren Buffett (Introduction)
In this series, we are going to discuss the Warren Buffett strategies and how he has evolved from a cigar-butt investor to someone who patiently waits and find good companies at fair prices. Under the influence of Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett realised that cigar-butt investing is not the way to go for someone with a longer time horizon. A cigar-butt … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » On institutional imperative
“The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated."-Warren Buffett, 1989 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder's LettersWhat happened to the market is result of institutional imperative. asset prices are rising, interest rates are at historic lows, robust lending environment have staged the way for a disaster.To top it all, bankers got too … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Why would Warren Buffett tells you his investing secrets?
I was reading the Berkshire Hathaway's annual letters and sent xoutdeyes a text message on why would Warren Buffett tell everybody how he does it - from selecting which businesses to invest it (i.e. defining the circle of competence), to determine the rate of change that the business have, the kind of management and the right business model and lastly, … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Your Brain is Badly Wired
We see what we expect to see. Every vantage point tells a different story, whether its your view on the current financial crisis or how you see the people around you. Dont believe everything your seeing, there is always something else going on in the background and most of us are too stupid to notice it. Watch this talk by … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » A Poor Man's Mosaic
After months of temptation over at ebay and amazon, i've finally found the next best thing to purchasing a rare $400 book.Over at Value Investing News is a collection of articles that make up some chapters of Mosaic, the first piece of value investing literature written by Mohnish Pabrai. Pabrai is the author of The Dhando Investor and manages Pabrai … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » The Mismatch Problem
Never mind the Malcolm Gladwell looks eerily similar to Sideshow Bob, the things he has to say will drastically change the way you view things.A staff writer of The New Yorker, he has authored two best selling books, The Tipping Point and Blink. His lates book, titled Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't is due to be out … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Lunch Dates and Cherry Coke
A little over a year ago, two American fund managers, Mohnish Pabrai and Guy Spier forked out over $650,000.00 to have lunch with the Oracle of Omaha; the world's best businessman. Pabrai manages Pabrai Funds and authored the Dhando Investor; a must read, even after you've read it 6 times. Spier manages AquaMarine Capital Management. Judging from the apparent desperation … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Nuggets of wisdom
watch this video of Warren dating back to 1995 . I wish i knew about WEB 13 years ago.I would have bought stocks instead of basketball trading cards, read annual and quarterly reports instead of Beckett.If i bought stocks instead of hoarding on rookie cards of Kidd, Bryant, Garnett, Duncan i'd probably have enough free cash to seat front row … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Risk, Return and Profit
“In the real world there is no ‘easy way’ to assure a financial profit. At least, it is gratifying to rationalize that we would rather lose intelligently … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » TED: Hans Rosling
Debunking third-world myths with real statistics "..the problems is not ignorance, but pre-conceived ideas…" [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » Oil Update
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Hammers and Hanging Men » Gold Update
In a previous post on January 26th, the chart showed a bearish divergence on gold price and technical indicators suggesting a possible drop in the near term.chart from previous postGold did almost exactly as suggested. The bull trap sprang into action a few weeks after that post. Price soared to over 1,000 then dived to the mid 800's. Currently, price … [Link]
Hammers and Hanging Men » DJI update
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