“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” – Henry David Thoreau Have you ever noticed how vehemently people react when you question something they believe in instead of ever being able to have an intelligent discussion with him or her? In the below video, Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winning [...]

We’ve moved the archives to the bottom of the page but they are still here. Of course you may always access the archives by clicking on the listed categories in the left hand column of this page as well. Learn the best ways to invest money during the developing dollar crisis, possible stock market crash, [...]

The recent comments of many on our nation’s top banking executives have been so consistently disingenuous that the subject of this article has been long overdue for some time now. On March 20, 2009, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit issued a memo to all Citigroup employees in which he stated, “Our industry has recently seen a [...]

20 April 2007 – Today, I’m sitting in for Kaeho, but have decided to keep the Friday theme of Zen and Martial Arts intact. This is perhaps one of the very best times for a blog entry about applying philosophies of Zen and the Art of War to investing. You must avoid the Art of [...]

April 13, 2007 – Today in Kaeho’s Corner, I’m going to discuss the lessons that pop culture can teach investors. One can learn a lot about how to become a better investor by observing pop culture. Pop culture and investing share similarities in that both are prone to trends that influence millions of people all [...]

March 9, 2007 – This week, in Kaeho’s Corner, my blog entry is going to focus on a particularly zen topic. O’ Sensei, the founder of Aikido scripted many lessons cumulatively that were thought to embody the art of peace. Here is one of those lessons: “The key to good technique is to keep your [...]

February 23, 2007 – There is something known as martial art’s intuition. Every martial artist that has sparred has experienced this intuition. You know when your sparring partner is going to throw a punch or deliver a chick before they do so. This intuition even translates outside of the dojo in being able to accurately [...]

February 16, 2007 – In martial arts, there is the concept of mu shin ryu, which loosely translated means “abandon the mind.” In almost every blog, I speak of how martial arts concepts can make you a better investor. In this instance, it is not the application of this concept, but the recognition of this [...]

February 2, 2007 – To win in investing, one has to deliver your punch while the markets are “breathing in”. What does this mean? Think about how your lungs operate. When you breathe in, your lungs contract and shrink and when you breathe out, your lungs expand. Just as a martial artist wants to deliver [...]

January 25, 2007 – Well this week’s casual Friday Blog is not so much a blog about investing & martial arts as it is a blog about the investing & the film The Matrix. The Matrix is one of my favorite movies because besides the dialogue being so stellar, much of the Matrix is an [...]

January 19, 2007 – I know that J.S. has blogged several times about Miyamoto Musashi, arguably the most famous samurai ever. I’m going to write about him as well in this article to illustrate the difference between the typical mindset of an investor versus what it should be. I’m going to paraphrase a story I [...]

January 12, 2007 – Today, even though every Friday blog is usually reserved for martial arts musings and how that relates to investing, since we’ve been talking about the remarkable effectiveness of the long tail of investing and investment strategies, I’m going to take the liberty today to write about Bob Marley, a legend that [...]

January 5, 2007 – Time for another format change in this blog. Every Friday will still remain the space for casual blog entries, but instead of J.S., from this date forward, every Friday, you’ll receive an entry from Kaeho’s Corner. Today, I’ll tell you how understanding the success of the top mixed martial artists in [...]