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The Personal Financier: Why Enough is Never Enough

Posted by dorianwales 791 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: career frugality money
A short tale on leg space, social status and the irony of human nature read more »
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The Personal Financier: The Dangers of Excess Frugality – Budgeting and Balanced Living

Posted by dorianwales 797 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: balance budgeting frugality philosoph
Frugality, in its moderate form, is probably a good trait. However, any excess (or deficiency), as Aristotle had so eloquently put, leads us away fro[...] read more »
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The Personal Financier: Blame the Models? Take a Good Look in the Mirror

Posted by dorianwales 811 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: crisis economy finance model
Is financial modeling to blame for the recent crisis? As always the fault does not lie with the tool but rather with the user. When was the last time[...] read more »
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The Personal Financier: Dow Hits 13 Month High on Decision to Keep Aid Flowing to the World Economy

Posted by dorianwales 823 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economy investing
My fundemental reasons for concern
The low interest rate environment as a catalyst to bubbles, Many stocks have regain past losses and some are clos[...] read more »
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The Personal Financier: Dollar Cost Averaging – Practical Lessons From Recent Experience

Posted by dorianwales 909 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Stocks | Tags: dollar cost averaging investing
My recent experience with Dollar Cost Averaging and the lessons I learned read more »
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The Personal Financier: Diversification is Dead. Long live Diversification

Posted by dorianwales 929 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: allocation diversification investing
Don’t give up on diversification through asset allocation just yet read more »
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The Personal Financier: Stress Tests and Capital Adequacy Explained

Posted by dorianwales 1021 days ago, popular 1021 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: banking economy finance stress tests
The highly anticipated FED stress test results may very well serve as fuel for further gains or, more likely in my opinion, as a sought after excuse [...] read more »
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The Personal Financier: On Causality and Correlation in Economics

Posted by dorianwales 1029 days ago, popular 1028 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: economics philosophy
Causality is perhaps the most fundamental element of empirical evidence available to economists. However, it is also the source of many misconception[...] read more »
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The Personal Financier: Challenging Happiness – Exploring the Irony of Human Nature

Posted by dorianwales 1031 days ago, popular 1031 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: economics psychology
The irony of human nature - anxiety for those that have everything and depression for those that have nothing read more »
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The Personal Financier: Is Rationalization the Key to Happiness?

Posted by dorianwales 1078 days ago, popular 1078 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: career planning psychology
Rationalization is a powerful defense mechanism which comes at the cost of self deception. Does honesty with oneself comes with a price in happiens? read more »
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Capitalism with Social Equality: A Powerful Though Experiment Demonstrates Our Moral Obligations

Posted by dorianwales 1098 days ago, popular 1098 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: capitalism economy morality socialism
An interesting thought experiment by American philosopher John Rawls demonstrates the morality of a more socialistic version of Capitalism read more »
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Behavioral Finance in Everyday Life – The Lottery as a Case Study

Posted by dorianwales 1105 days ago, popular 1105 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: economy finance investing psychology
Is lottery a tax on stupidity or are our flawed psychologies playing another trick on us? read more »
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Success: Who Dares Wins?

Posted by dorianwales 1112 days ago, popular 1112 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Entrepreneurship | Tags: career financial independence success
Following the crowds won't get you there read more »
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Valuation and Risk Measurement Models under Heavy Criticism – What Went Wrong?

Posted by dorianwales 1120 days ago, popular 1120 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: finance investing model risk valuation
Are valuation and risk measurement models as the root of all evil? read more »
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Is the Stock Market a Big Ponzi (Madoff) Scheme?

Posted by dorianwales 1140 days ago, popular 1140 days ago (http://www.thepersonalfinancier.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: finance philosophy ponzi psychology
Looking into the notion of the western financial markets as a big pyramid scheme read more »
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