December 13, 2006- I remember a King of the Hill Episode (an American TV show) where the main character asks his Laotian neighbor, “Are you Japanese or Chinese?” The neighbor answers, “Laotian”, to which the Caucasian character immediately replies, “So. Are you Japanese or Chinese?” As I’m recalling this from memory, that might not be [...]

November 30, 2006 – Time for the casual Friday blog again. This past week was the late great Bruce Lee’s birthday so I’m paying tribute to Bruce this Friday. Last November, Bosnia unveiled a lifesize bronzed likeness of martial arts legend Bruce Lee. In a country that has witnessed some of the most brutal ethnic [...]

November 22, 2006 – In Part I of this blog, you learned the first seven rules. Here, you will learn seven additional rules. For the curious, the photo to the right are SEALS undergoing an exercise in “drownproofing” where their hands are bound behind their backs and their ankles are bound together. More on this [...]

November 22, 2006-  The rules of elite military special ops have a lot more in common with investing than you could ever imagine. Improve your Wealth Literacy with the following lessons. More on this topic (What's this?) Two Long-Term Investing Strategies That Work (and one that doesn’t) (Investment U, 4/25/12) Preferred Stock Investing: The Income [...]

November 16, 2007 – The other day, Kaeho and I were discussing an article we both read entitled “What if Buddha Dated?” and both agreed that “What if Buddha Invested?” would make a great topic for the casual Friday blog entry. However, I decided to hand the duty of this blog to Kaeho. After you [...]

November 15, 2006 – This blog is a continuation of my previous entry. I was going to wait uintil next week to post it, but was in a writing mood today so since I finished writing it earlier, here it is. From March 2005 to March 2006, I achieved a 40% return in my portfolio [...]

November 15, 2006 – Today, I’ve decided to trump Kaeho at his own game. Having considerable training in martial arts myself, I’ve noticed many strategies and techniques that have improved my martial arts training that are applicable to the art of investing. After all I named my blog the Zen of Investing for this very [...]

November 14, 2006 – Last week, in the U.S. Mid-Term elections, the Democrats won a stunning sweep of both houses of Congress, throwing the U.S. government into what many term as “gridlock” for the next two years as a Republican President will fight a Democratic Congress. But what does this sweeping change mean in terms [...]

November 4, 2006 – Since Kaeho has been absent in training recently, I’ve handed over the Friday post to him this week. The light hearted Friday post is one day late, but finally….here it is. Like the stock markets, martial arts are dynamic. There are so-called “hard” art forms such as kyokushinkai karate founded by [...]

October 5, 2006 – I know that I haven’t written enough about global markets especially since I can probably count the number of U.S. stocks I own on one hand, so to address this anomaly, I am going to write about international markets today. Most analysts when they speak of global economic output, measure output [...]

October 2, 2006 – The big news story in the U.S. media is Bob Woodward’s book that is heavily critical of the Bush Administrations handling of the Iraqi war called “State of Denial”. In the book, according to an advanced preview by the New York Times, Woodward accuses the Bush administration of repeatedly misleading the [...]

September 28, 2006 – Historically, August and September are very weak months in the stock market and rallies start in October into November and December. Then January has always been a very strong month performance wise as investors buy back shares they sold off in December for tax reasons. Right now, the U.S. markets are [...]

September 23, 2006 – The world of global politics is like Alice in Wonderland, a great landscape of fabrication where it seems like more people are accepting of strange, wild fantasies rather than desiring to dig down the rabbit hole to discover the truth. Back in November, 2004, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar pointed to statistically [...]