Today is the last day of the 2012 WordCount Blogathon. In one month, I have doubled the number of posts on my blog, found a niche for future posts (college financing!), and had more fun than I thought I would. So, all in all, a success. Congratulations to all of the other bloggers who participated,… [Read More]
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Ten Badly Explained Topics in Finance Textbooks
Pablo Fernandez is a professor at the business school at the Universitad de Navarra, a Spanish institution. One of his area of research is how finance is taught. The idea is that students pick up concepts in class that then carry over to how they interpret finance on the job. For example, he conducts a… [Read More]
The Power of MSCI
Whenever I talk about emerging markets, people want to argue with me. Why is Korea on the list, when it’s as developed as any country out there? How can you say China is an emerging market when its GDP is the world’s second largest? The answer is simple. An emerging market is any that is… [Read More]
Three Cans of Diet Coke
I’m going to add three cents to the discussion about Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, the book about his embellished school-building program in Afghanistan. First, the expose by Jon Krakauer, longer than an article but shorter than a book, is available online through a new service, Byliner, that hopes to commercialize more works of… [Read More]
