Economics for the Intelligent Amateur

Along the same vein of our last article on this subject, we continue to find amusing investment tips in Kiplinger’s:
Page 31 of their February 2010 edition is called:
Make a Buck off a Sagging Dollar – by Andrew Tanzer
This articles states how, since the US Dollar is falling, what alternatives an investor should find in order [...]

As long time proponents of market efficiency, we are still amused by the investment methods that keep getting regurgitated. They tend to fall under two main camps: The Charting methods, that analyze past performance and try to find trends, and the Fundamentals method, which analyzes various companies and determines which is undervalued. Of [...]

Happy Birthday to Jason Nagashima and Rebecca Gebhardt!! We hope you have very Efficient and Globalized Birthdays!
Have a few drinks too

Friedrich von Hayek was an Austrian economist, always staunchly pro Free market, Free trade and anti-socialist. He was also the most prominent proponent of what is now called the Austrian school of Economics and first became well known thanks to his book: The Road to Serfdom.
These days, while almost everyone remembers Keynes, relatively [...]

For those of you who are avid Twitter users, the following paragraph will be old news: once you join Twitter, you notice how many Followers others have. People you have never heard of, and who seemingly have very little to offer, will have tens of thousands of followers. How come you have so few? [...]