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    Zippy Slogans and Ponderous Details
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    Zippy Slogans and Ponderous Details

    Robert Hamill 12 Aug 201130 May 2022Leave a comment

    It is as non-productive to attack surface arguments from a deep perspective as it is to defend deep positions against bumper slogans which don't acknowledge…

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    Monte Carlo with $100,000 in the Stock Market
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    Monte Carlo with $100,000 in the Stock Market

    Robert Hamill 22 Jun 201127 Feb 20243 Comments

    A Monte Carlo simulation shows that after 10 years, $100,000 in the stock market could be as little as $51,000 or as much as $500,000.

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    Exxon averages $0.85 profit per gallon! Almost one-third of the pump price.

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    Exorbitant Privilege
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    Exorbitant Privilege

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    ‘Exorbitant Privilege’ is about the benefit to the US of the dollar of being a reserve currency as well as the current problems and possibilities…

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    Great Recession Effects on GDP

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    Great Recession result, GDP growth will continue weak for next 3-5 years

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    Asset Allocation Books
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    Asset Allocation Books

    Robert Hamill 29 Dec 201030 May 2022Leave a comment

    "As we serve our own interests, the value of the world's economy increases." That sentence has constraints that are ignored.

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