Warren Buffet's story related to Orangutans flipping coins

Stock Market Secrets: Orangutans

The concept for this article has been unashamedly stolen from Warren Buffet although it has been given an an Australian flavour. He expounded the US version in a speech in 1984 commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the book Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, the bible of value investing. He called his speech…

The story of Ithaca

Ithaca

I wrote this article a few years ago – it might have been titled "Why are we here?". Ithaca is the island in Greece that Odysseus had so much trouble returning to in Homer’s Odyssey. On his way, he survives run-ins with the Cicones, Polyphemus (Cyclops to you), Circe, the Sirens, Scylla, the winds of…

Tulipmania

When it comes to the stock market there are rallies and then there are bubbles. The media slips into ‘bubble jargon’ on a whim but Bubbles are rare. At the moment we are in the middle of an AI Bubble apparently, and a Crypto Bubble. But these aren't Bubbles, they are not going to be…

Stock Market Secrets: Hail Caesar Las Vegas

Stock Market Secrets – Hail Caesar

Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas will know what I mean when I say it’s a place that everyone has to visit but no one wants to stay. I tried to get married again. Elvis was prepared to pick us up from out hotel in a stretch limo, take us to the chapel, be our…