Unpopular investing
Investment should be about making good long term returns. It’s not about winning a popularity contest.
Tag: Personal Finance
Voting machine vs weighing machine
This blog revisits some of Ben graham’s teachings related to markets and valuations.
Dot balls in investing
When there is nothing to do, do nothing. This is true in Test Cricket, Baseball, Investing and Business. It’s important to be patient and wait for the right opportunity rather than swing after suboptimal opportunities.
Slack – the good bad word
Slack is like margin of safety. Slack helps countries, companies, portfolios and individuals to survive.
Economics for the irrational man
Classical Economics assumes humans make decisions rationally. But in reality we are all messed up. Behavioral Economics explains our biases and why/how we make irrational decisions all the time.
Loss cutting
In investing as in life, occasionally things will not go as per our plan. What should we then do? Cut our losses and move on, no matter how hard it is. This is what lucky people do.
Predicting rain
Warren Buffett said: Predicting rains does not count, building ark does. This blog takes the idea of working on the “arks” of our life now so that we are much better off in the future.
A bird in hand
Our natural wiring makes us veer towards certainty and away from uncertainty. But certainty comes at a cost. And it’s okay to seek some certainty too.
Simple and Compound Interest
This is a simple blog on Simple Interest and Compound Interest. These concepts are everywhere in nature, life, business and investing. We just need to train our minds to see them.
What’s on your mind?
A blog on how we tend to see and act based on what’s on our mind instead of thinking and acting better.
Interest upon Interest 