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“Let it work, For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard; and 't shall go hard” - Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 4, Shakespeare This week’s quote goes straight to the deep dive and t...
Read More →“The Bell never rings of itself; unless someone handles or moves it it is dumb.” - Plautus, Roman playwright. This week’s quote again looks forward to the deep dive - the Bell in question is To...
Read More →“The only way is up.” - Yazz and the Plastic Population, 1988 (Originally written by George Jackson and Johnny Henderson) This week’s quote again looks forward to the deep dive - tax, tax and t...
Read More →“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” - George Orwell, visionary and author This week’s quote again looks forward to the deep di...
Read More →“In a way the philosopher and the barber are of the same guild; the barber cuts hair and the philosopher splits hairs.” - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher This week’s quote again looks...
Read More →"A black swan is an event with three attributes: it is an outlier, it carries extreme impact, and it is retrospectively predictable." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author, The Black Swan This week’s...
Read More →“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future” - Niels Bohr, physicist (and comedian, it seems) This week’s quote is one about the subject matter of the deep dive - it is t...
Read More →“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made ris...
Read More →“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” - Martin Luther King Jr., no intro need...
Read More →“Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it” - origins from Aesop’s Fables. This week’s quote is one about caution and consequences - and you will see just why in the deep dive. Before...
Read More →“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result ...
Read More →“It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sum payment for a future cash flow..” - Ray Dalio, macro investor of note. This week’s quote is one a...
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