In his excellent book “Your Money and Your Brain,” Jason Zweig writes with extensively-researched detail about the ways that strong human emotions (such as fear, greed, regret, and surprise) can distort our…
Category: Books
“The Four Pillars of Investing”: An Uncannily Well-Timed Read
Early in the year–way back in the pre-pandemic days of January and early February–I read William Bernstein’s “The Four Pillars of Investing.” This book was a lively, well-written, and enjoyable read. I…
The Simple Contrarian Beauty of Rebalancing
Hello! Today is the 15th of January, and it is my first post of 2020. I didn’t exactly plan not to blog until now, but to be honest, I didn’t have the…
The 2010s: (My) Decade in Review
Well, here we are, a few days away from the end of the 2010s! Soon, it will be but a memory, like all decades before it. This decade was quite significant for…
This is Why We Invest in Stocks
I just finished re-reading Burton Malkiel’s investing classic, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street.” As I wrote the other day, Malkiel espouses the virtues of the Index Fund as a vehicle for…
The Gospel of the Index Fund
Having been an investor for over four and a half years now, I suppose I may not be exactly a “newbie” anymore. However, that hardly makes me an expert either, and I…
Day 393: Back in the Cave with the Approval-Seeking Dragon
A few days ago I wrote some thoughts prompted by a passage from Wayne Dyer’s “Erroneous Zones.” I decided to do a similar thing tonight 🙂 This passage deals with how children…
Day 388: Free Yourself From Nasty “I’m” Statements
Okay, so today I have decided to pick a quote from a book and comment on it. I have chosen Wayne Dyer’s “Your Erroneous Zones,” which I “randomly” opened up. Here’s the…
Day 386: Having Something Good to Read (Revisited)
A couple of nights ago I finished “Grant,” a weighty biography by Ron Chernow that I have written about previously (here and here). I finished it much as I started it: satisfied…
Day 383: I will develop good habits and become their slave!
So several years ago, my wife and I read through “The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be,” by Jack Canfield. This book made…