Monthly Archives: November 2012

The money quote

Yesterday I was doing a media interview where I repeated the self-evident truth that in order to be a valuable risk manager one needs to have measurement tools, execution discipline and allocation flexibility that allows us to constantly measure price … Continue reading

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Facts make a mockery of the Grover Norquist club

Warren Buffett’s Op-Ed in the New York Times this weekend offers some important historical facts and context on how incredibly low average tax rates are for the wealthiest Americans today. Policy rates are low even if the country was experiencing … Continue reading

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Lincoln film offers context to current challenges

We went to see Spielberg’s new movie “Lincoln” yesterday and found it worthwhile. The drama reminds us of the cavernous divide that America faced in ending slavery and the Civil War and banding disparate sovereign states into the ambitious ideals … Continue reading

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