The Shock of the Great Crash
I like this article. It is replete with fascinating insights re a notable moment in (financial) history. And it is pithy.
posted by David M Gordon | 9:36 AM
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Where the science of investing becomes an art of living
About Me
- Name: David M Gordon
- Location: Summerlin, Nevada, United States
A private investor for 20+ years, I manage private portfolios and write about investing. You can read my market musings on three different sites: 1) The Deipnosophist, dedicated to teaching the market's processes and mechanics; 2) Investment Poetry, a subscription site dedicated to real time investment recommendations; and 3) Seeking Alpha, a combination of the other two sites with a mix of reprints from this site and all-original content. See you here, there, or the other site!
FAQ
- A friend jazzes it up
- Time & the Art of Trading
- Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Too
- How To Make a Killing...
- Turing's Cathedral
- ... and calamity begets (portfolio) crisis
- Trading the market
- Bill Gross/PIMCO
- The crash test
- Updating "Perk up"
From the archives
Currently...
Reading:
Apothegms
- "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." -Confucius
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- "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D Roosevelt
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- "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -Henry Ford
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- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle
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- "In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." -Bertrand Russell
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- "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." -Ogden Nash
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- "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." -Sir Francis Bacon
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- "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me how to live." -Alexander Herzen
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- "Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'" -Virgil
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- "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -James Thurber
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- "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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- "Life is really simple; we insist on making it complicated." -Confucius
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- "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt
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- "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Francis Bacon
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- "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Philo of Alexandria
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- "If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -E. B. White
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- "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -William Arthur Ward
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- "If you live only for yourself, then dying is an especially scary proposition." -Anonymous
Friends
- Barry Eisler
- Cineholics
- Ed Rothstein
- Elizabeth Bear
- Leo Posillico
- Liz Cummings
- Mauri Pioppo
- Peter Watts
- Scott Stulberg
- Wil McCarthy
Investing:
- Aleph
- Applying the Lessons from Free Market Economics
- Between the Hedges
- biiwii
- Calculated Risk
- Chart Patterns
- China Financial Markets
- Controlled Greed
- Curious Investor
- EconoWhiner
- Financial Life Cycle Planning
- FinViz
- Mad Hedge Fund Trader
- Market Gauge
- Measuring Worth
- Phil Town
- Price of Everything
- Quantifiable Edges
- Reading the markets
- Scott Grannis
- Street Events
- Trading Day
- VIX, and more
Sites I Like
- All My Faves
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Asking the Wrong Questions
- Bug Me Not
- Clock
- Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
- Creep
- Economists
- Get A Human
- Heart of the Matter
- Interview with the Boss
- Jackson Pollock
- Language Log
- Local Hikes
- Movie Trailers
- Pixdaus
- Watching America
- Winery Bound
- Wine Searcher
- Worldometers
Photos
Notable:
Books
- Recommended
- ↑ Truly a stupendous feat of literary legerdemain, as Justin Evans transcends the genre. Wow!
- ↑ Science fiction, as a literary genre, often succeeds as science fiction but fails as literature. BLINDSIGHT by Peter Watts succeeds on all counts. A brilliantly told tale of awe and wonder, it deals with the Big Ideas but never, not one time, stints on its characters and their motivations. One of the better, if not best, SF novels I have ever read.
- Riches steep each page, paragraph, and sentence of this endearing, funny, magical, magisterial novel.
- ↑ Especial merit
- ↑ I believed I would not like this novel, but wow did it ever surprise me! I loved its discursive insights on many topics.
- ↑ This past year has brought to my attention several wonderful novels, but each, at best, merely equals this perfect gem of a novel. Sadly, I have completed the novel, and so can pay the highest compliment a reader could pay a writer: I have ordered all of her other novels. Highly recommended.
- ↑ I can only shake my head in amazement and wonder -- this is a first novel? Yes, but it also qualifies as extraordinarily accomplished, assured, and fantastic. Wow!
- ↑ Especial merit
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Movies
- ↑ CONTACT
- ↑ Starting Out in the Evening has more up its sleeve than the simple telling of a plot or introducing its viewers to 3 dimensional characters; no, this movie talks about literature, literacy, the writing process, and more. And does so winningly, although deliberately. To my surprise, it is not for all viewers, although I find it magical.
Music
- ↑ Saeta's music is not to everyone's taste or mood, but certainly mine!
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