January 2011
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Take the Stairs! Where else but in Sweden? →
This is quite cool and clever. I’d file it under “how to manipulate people for social good”.
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I went to the library today, as I’ve been unable to find Keynes’s investment correspondence for sale for the $100 or less that I’d pay (I found out about the book on this blog). I learned some things:
1) my phone’s camera is so good that I don’t need to use a xerox machine 2) bring earplugs to the library - those guys are weird, annoying, and loud 3) Keynes was one...
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John Maynard Keynes, Value Investor
Memorandum for the Estates Committee, Kings College, Cambridge, 8 May 1938
…In fact the chief lesson I draw from the above results is the opposite of what I set out to show when, what is now nearly 20 years ago, I first persuaded the College to invest in ordinary shares. At that time I believed that profit could be made by what was called a credit cycle policy, namely by holding such shares...
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