Updated for 2010 and in time for the holidays, here is the latest installment of my recommended books. I originally wrote this list in 2008 and again last year. I intend to keep adding to and revising it every year. It contains seven sections: Selling, Think Like an Investor, Behavioral Investing, Economics, Stock Market History, [...]
I originally wrote this list of recommended books last year; recently I updated and added a few more. I hope to keep adding to it every year. It contains six sections: Selling, Think Like an Investor, Behavioral Investing, Economics, Stock Market History, and Books for the Soul. I hope you enjoy it. In crazy times like [...]
Our emotions are our biggest enemy, at least when it comes to investing. We should all know this. If you don’t, stop making your own investment decisions right now. Our emotions lead us to do the opposite of what we should be doing. They lead us to buy high and sell low. They make us [...]
I spent my youth in Murmansk, a city in the northwest part of Russia, located right above the Arctic Circle. Murmansk owes its existence to the port that, due to the warm Gulf Stream, doesn’t freeze during the long winters, providing unique access to Russia from the north. During the Cold War, Murmansk’s coordinates must [...]
“Dear Mr. Ex-KGB” article resulted in a lot of email responses. I spent some time on the phone with a journalist discussing my thoughts on Russia and a story of my family coming to the US from Russia in 1991. Playing a devil’s advocate he would say – “yes, things are bad in Russia but [...]