I have subscribed to dozens of investment newsletters and sites over the years and used to read newspapers. What follows are my opinions based on past experience, the publications mentioned may have changed since I subscribed.

Withour Hot Air, Jeremy Grantham’s quarterly letter, Security Analysis and New Scientist.

In this review of Finding Alpha: The Search for Alpha When Risk and Return Break Down by Eric Falkenstein, David Merkel summarises with words I’ve often penned.
What this all says to me is that investors are too hopeful. They look for the big wins and ignore smaller ways to make extra money. They swing for the fences and get an “out,” rather than blooping singles with some regularity. I like blooping singles with regularity.
via Merkel on Falkenstein’s ‘Finding Alpha: When Risk and Return Break Down’ — Seeking Alpha.
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Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many Shall fall that are now in honor

Scribd is a document sharing website. It is often described as a YouTube for documents and like YouTube the user posted documents are both plentiful and sometimes infringe on copyright. Here are some of my favourites.

Lessons and Ideas from Benjamin Graham, The Origin of Wealth. The Last Hurrah and Seven Lean Years. Reinvesting when Terrified

This is not the Complete Guide to Futures, it is a pointer to the guide and a reminder for me. The book which has been called a comprehensive and essential examination of fundamental and technical analysis has been essential reading since 1984.

There are many ways to learn something. The two most utilised are experiential and theoretical, doing it and reading about it.

I’ve still got plenty more to learn from Klarman, though I will never follow his exact path. I’d be disappointed if I’d shelled out a grand for Margin of Safety. Klarman would call the trading of his book at Amazon “trading sardines”.

A month ago I was not checking the VIX daily. The Volatility Index hit a new high of 59.06 during Wednesdays sixth straight fall for US markets.
For the Dow and the S&P 500, Wednesday capped their biggest six-day point loss ever. It was a session of wild swings, with no clear direction determined until the final minutes…
In the last hour of trading, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned that the turmoil “will not end quickly.”
In possibly unrelated news. Last night I decided to re-read The Book of Investing Wisdom, …