Monthly Archives: May 2011

Controlling Behavior and Tradeoffs

This is a long but good article on how our internal wiring may work against us as we try to make rational/good financial decisions. Scroll down to next to last paragraph where he speaks of tradeoffs . Good stuff.

Financial Balance

The next issue of our, bi -weekly newsletter, STAT is available. You can access it here If you’d like to receive our email newsletter, you can click the “Sign up for our Email Newsletter” link on the right of this … Continue reading

Long Term Housing View

Saw this interesting view on long term housing trends. A good systematic approach looking at demographics and household formations. Hope this proves right. Many asset markets overcorrect so this could be a good perspective.

The Role of Business in Society

I saw this excellent commencement address from Carl Schramm to business graduates at Pepperdine University. He builds the case for creating new businesses as a noble public service. As he says “government and non-profits are not self sustaining. They must … Continue reading