Esperando un Camino In my office there is a bronze sculpture we acquired in Madrid, Spain some 25 years ago. It is about a foot tall and depicts a young woman. She is barefoot and has long flowing hair. Dressed in a peasant blouse and long skirt, she stands with her hands on her hips… [Continue Reading]
Archives for January 2012
Beanie Babies, Naked Barbie, American Pickers and Old Coots
As we begin preparing for our move we’ve been poking thru our various boxes and bins looking for stuff we don’t want to pay to move. Which, for me, is just about everything. I love getting rid of stuff. In one of those plastic bins (the oversized version) is my daughter’s collection of Beanie Babies. … [Continue Reading]
Selling the House and Adventures in Staging
Each winter up here in the wilds of New Hampshire we get ice and snow storms. Then the power goes out. Soon the neighborhood is humming with the sounds of generators as folks flip the appropriate switch and electricity flows back along its appointed rounds. Except at my house. After living here 12 years… [Continue Reading]
Index Investing, A Brief History of Vanguard, and the Case for Average Returns
Over on the post Magic Beans reader Mark had this to say in the comments: “Being a Boglehead myself, I read the ERE article to see what he had to say. I had to sigh when I got to this: “Index investing is basically equivalent to a buy and hold strategy with very low turnover of a… [Continue Reading]
Magic Beans
For supposedly rational creatures we humans seem irrationally drawn to Magic Beans. Being a geezer I’ve been around long enough to see quite a few flavors come and go. What they all have in common is that by the time you start reading about them everywhere, the end is near. Let’s see… I remember Growth… [Continue Reading]
