Year: 2011

How to Negotiate Irrational Thinking

In a post last week I mentioned that we were going to share with you our stand-out favourite emerging market this week. Our humble apologies but its still in the oven so instead we’ll be detailing it next week.  In my last post I discussed how ego affects our personal

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Social Stratification: The Division You Shouldn’t Ignore

Years ago I was working for a large investment bank in London’s financial district. Upon coming to work one morning I found a survey doing the rounds through the office.  All the employees were requested to complete it. The survey only had a few questions, but one in particular caught

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Popular Currencies: What Benchmark are You Using?

Roughly 7 years ago I moved to NZ. The local currency was one of the cheapest on the planet and possibly the cheapest currency of any first world country in terms of purchasing power parity. It traded around 40 cents to the greenback. Real estate had not gone anywhere in

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A Frontier Capitalist

I live most of the year in Uruguay these days.  It’s a fascinating place, full of interesting and intelligent people.  There is a vibrant expat community with individuals from all over the globe.  On any given weekend I’m mingling with people from Germany, Botswana, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, Russia

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What are We Teaching Our Kids?

In the process of teaching my son some mathematics, letter recognition, and writing I found myself committing the gravest of wrongs. Understandably the poor guy was getting bored with practicing letters. Who could blame him? “Ok buddy, 10 more minutes and then we can go for a swim” 10 minutes passed and

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Patriotism: A Very Different View

Capitalism and politics are inextricably linked and so as an avid capitalist it certainly pays to pay attention to politics. Following straight on the back of my post on Military Minds, I thought it worth sharing an article written by one Fred Reed. Fred speaks his mind in a way that

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The Seemingly Flawed Military Mind

Years back, while returning home from a night out on the town in London, I found myself on the “underground” in a carriage packed full of late-night revelers. Into my carriage stepped a large brute of a man who immediately began threatening and harassing anyone close to him. Stoned, drunk

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