Known as ‘Silent Cal’, Calvin Coolidge had much to say that was of great value. Quite a few years ago, when I first read his words on persistence I didn’t really understand how powerful and true it was. It is only as I have grown older and seen so many people who had everything [...]
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There is more worth quoting in Bastiat’s few short works than in most libraries. Here he smiths what is perhaps the only true application of Malthus’s Law. The State is also subject to Malthus’s Law. It tends to exceed the level of its means of existence, it expands in line with its means and [...] Clews great classic Fifty Years in Wall Street was added to the Free Books page. This is not only an important read but an entertaining one as well. I’ve often wondered if this quote from the book might not be the most important two paragraphs ever written about investing. But few gain sufficient experience [...] This is something I’ve personally hoped would happen eventually. Having all the big players in the space working with the open source community will help to prevent divergence between the open and commercial implementations. Throughout the Sun/Oracle bumps, Java has remained a popular choice for application development and this action should help continue it’s [...] If you have tried to install the new Ubuntu 10.10 system as a guest on VirtualBox then you know that the guest additions are unable to work with the X11 server version. The good guys at unixmen have posted instructions on dealing with this and the fix is simple and straightforward. If you have [...] Now available in a single video is Lawrence Reed’s Lessons from the Great Depression. Thanks to Nelsio. Standard disclaimer – At the time of posting I believe all information contained to be accurate but there is absolutely no warranty or guarantee. So the December 09 unemployment rate held steady at 10% … yeah right. This goes to the issue of how to read and use economic indicators. The rate stayed were it was because a million people were dropped from the count of unemployed due to going passed the magic 27 week number. It’s [...] Gross is one of the top money managers in the world and his views are always worth reading but his latest investment outlook is extremely important and timely. Do yourself a favor and read the January 2010 Investment Outlook . Added Another one of my favorite older books to the free books page Bagehot’s Lombard Street. Banking panics and credit crises are nothing new and there is much value in comparing the older to the new. As long as banks and credit have existed so to has the credit crisis.
There are two items I always ensure are in my briefcase before I go out the door. My much abused and scarred HP-12C and a Knoppix DVD. Klaus has now released version 6.2 of the best live CD around. Some notable changes and upgrades include: LXDE desktop for those low resource situations that still [...] |
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