Category Archives: Investment Concepts
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
The story of Enron’s spectacular rise and collapse is a foreshadowing of the 2008 financial crisis. In the movie Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, we learn how a small company takes advantage of a change in the laws … Continue reading
Surrender Control to Achieve Your Purpose.
700 words. After talking on the phone for a couple of hours, my colleague turned to me with a satisfied smile and said “she finally got the message.” He had been considering her application to be accepted as a charity … Continue reading
Protect Your Brain, Improve Your Career
Fortune Magazine published a short article noting that some of the habits psychologists say we should adopt to avoid dementia in later life are also the kind of habits which will make us more successful in the office workplace. They … Continue reading
Consumed
This documentary could have been twenty minutes shorter without losing much of its message. But it’s worth watching as an introduction to thinking about adopting a more minimalist lifestyle. It discusses how consumerism developed and took hold after the second … Continue reading
Getting a Job – How to Follow Up After the Interview.
530 words. You’ve got your heart set on getting that job. You’ve had the interview and given it your best shot. But the interviewer was non-committal, told you they’d let you know in a few days. But every day seems … Continue reading
Understand Your Emotions to Make Money
1540 words Successful investors are able to ignore their emotions when they make a financial decision. This is particularly true with shares. In this synopsis of an essay ‘The Emotions of Risk’ by Richard A. Geist, a psychologist, we think … Continue reading
Gold Myths 1: You Can’t Eat Gold
People who argue against investing in gold often sum up their reasoning with this falsehood. They then sit back with a smug grin as if it made some sort of sense. By ‘eating’ I think they mean ‘put into productive … Continue reading