Thanks to a book on retirement and many sundry articles on retirement planning….and people realizing (perhaps) my limited ability to talk on other topics….we do end up talking a lot about retirement. This is how they react…I have a little conveniently summarised them as follows: people in the 20s – ‘what are you talking about?’ […]
Ok This is not about Friedman’s book…it is just that last week I got confirmation of this! In a complex world with a lot of barriers to information flow, it was possible to make money on information arbitrage. Not sure how many readers will believe that in the 1990s it was easy for foreign banks […]
http://www.subramoney.com/book-written-by-me/ Taleb’s latest book is a simple book – with a lot of one liners. Debashis Basu told me at about 3pm on a Saturday evening about this book. So by 3.01 the decision to buy the book was taken. After some work I managed to reach Twistntales – a cosy book shop in Aundh […]
For those of you who do not use what is parroting – it is repeating some cliche statements without understanding what it means. It also includes those statements which some of them may have no clue what it means. Let us take some statements which I hear…and some which are on the media: 1. Sir […]
A lot of the money that I handle directly (family only) and some people who claim to listen to me (I have no clue where they buy, whether they buy, or whether they have sold)…are bleeding because of these shares: Allied Digital (-67%), Arvind Products (-54%), Brand House (-34%), Crest Animation (-49%), Jupiter Bio (-39%), […]
Well I have no strong views on Gold – however I have never bought any gold as an investment. I wear no gold on my body, but I guess my mother, sister, wife, and daughter do wear. However as a family also there is no interest in the gold – except to the extent that […]
Well this is not a ‘how to guide’ – just a talk that I had with a ‘turn around’ specialist. I met him at a social function and what he said was interesting. Hence the blog article. Many of the things he told me were intuitive. So I will not dwell on things like cut […]