It’s the old frog in the boiling water trick. Slowly upping the water temperature permits the frog to die a happy yet surprising death. This is the designed trickery behind our system of gradual increases and it has become rampantly successful throughout today’s America.
Read more ›Archive for March 26th, 2012
We Know the Problem…What’s the Answer?
Today America is in the midst of a revolution and we need practical suggestions for the very large and the very small for the societal and cultural level and the personal level if we are to understand what is happening, what is about to happen and what we should do.
Read more ›Size: The Second Factor of Investing
In this series we are looking at the Fama-French three-factor model of investment returns. Any model of investment returns tries to predict an investment’s returns and volatility by factors that can be measured in advance of investing. The first factor, beta, taught us that the riskier, more volatile stocks on average have better returns. The second factor of investing is size as measured by a stock’s total capitalization. A stock’s capitalization is found by multiplying the current share price times all the outstanding shares of stock.
Read more ›Governor Daugaard’s 3 major vetoes were ‘right-on’
Three major bills during the last session of the South Dakota Legislature felt the sting of Governor Daugaard’s veto pen. It’s been a couple of weeks since the final legislative day in Pierre, known as Veto Day. That should be enough time to determine whether or not our governor made the right decisions about those three bills that were killed by his pen.
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