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Sometimes, in some places, those risks can overwhelm every comforting shibboleth we investors like to cling to: mean reversion, compound interest, and investing for the long-term. All of it. Countrycide No one lives to 124 (yet) and none of our most elderly were wizenedold investors. So s...
Eisenhower gave a speech notably titled “The Chance for Peace,” in which he made clear that the United States and its friends had chosen one road while Soviet leaders had chosen another path in the postwar world. But he always looked for ways to encourage the Kremlin to move in...
guards in Belgium were caught flat-footed today by a cowardly sneak attack on one of the world’s wealthiest men. The target was Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, arriving for a meeting with community leaders. Watch what happens when a team of hit men meet him first with a pie in the face...
Steve got off his ass and went for a run. I got off my ass and went to Belgium. None of these people knew what the end game would be – they took a chance because they felt cornered. It was now or (potentially) never. I’m not sayingIncremental changeis bad. It’s a fantastic...
and make them brighter. This really did not make any difference at the combat ranges in Western Europe. It may have made a marginal difference on the eastern front. It did nothing to negate the difficulty of actually finding a target to shoot at l...
BTW, who here knows that William Tyndale – probably the greatest English scholar that ever lived – was strangled and burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Vilvoorde, Belgium, as a “heretic”. Before he died, he prayed, “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes”. The ...