Election Day is nearly here, and hopefully by next week, we will know who won the presidency and who controls Congress. Unfortunately, we may not know, as there may be some uncertainty about the outcome due to all sorts of factors, including potential contesting of the results by both sides. So, what asset class moves

I’m a big fan of combat sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts. One reason why I like them is the decisive nature of knockout and tap out victories. I mean, there is no mistaking a big knockout, or a competitor that chooses to admit defeat by essentially crying “uncle.” The least satisfying outcome,

Love, Poverty, War and Confidence There’s an old saying in the literary world that a man’s life is incomplete until he has tasted love, poverty and war. Beginning with the latter, my closest brush came in January 1991. I was just graduating from the U.S. Army Airborne School at Ft. Benning, Georgia, as the bombs

As you may know, in what seems now like a past life, I was once a member the United States Army, serving in the airborne infantry and then in special operations. And though I was Army, I met a lot of Navy personnel, especially in some of the more interesting, multi-service schools, such as Airborne

Life is fun. For me, one of the best parts of life is getting to meet, and even become friends with many of the people I admire most. That’s true in business, investing and in my many hobbies (some might say too many hobbies), particularly my musical pursuits. By the way, do you know what

One of the great things about my life is that I get to meet, and even become friends with, many of the people I admire most. That’s true in business, investing and in my many hobbies (some might say too many hobbies), particularly my musical pursuits. By the way, do you know what they say

Let it ride, let it ride easy down the road Let it ride, let it take away all of the darkness Let it ride, let it rock me in the arms Of stranger’s angels until it brings me home Let it ride, let it roll, let it go… –Ryan Adams, “Let It Ride” When trading,

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The Stoics are hot. The philosophy has never been more popular, and that’s due in large part to a renaissance of the ideas brought about by a cadre of thoughtful social media personalities promulgating the work of Stoics such as Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Stoicism, in essence, argues that the practice of virtue is

I am not a superstitious man. In fact, I reject superstitions as mere vestiges of a time when humans understood the mechanics of the universe a lot less well than we do today. One superstition I reject is a so-called “lucky number.” Numbers aren’t lucky, although luck plays a pretty big role in human existence.