February 2013

Real Life and the Rolling Fiscal Cliffs

Most of the thought I’ve put into the “rolling fiscal cliffs” we’re about to climb and tumble down has been of an investing nature – “how will the markets be affected?” I’m allowed this line of thinking, it’s literally my job to be concerned with such things on behalf of clients. Michael Cooper’s got a…

How Big is the Mobile Phone Market, Circa Now?

Tiernan Ray uses his Technology Trader column at Barron’s this weekend to look at the winners and losers of the mobile market. In terms of the industry’s sheer size, he notes the following: The industry could sell some 886 million smartphones this year, nearly half of all mobile phones, up 31% from last year’s total,…

Allow me to enlighten you…

Why, all of a sudden yesterday, was everyone in both traditional and social media running around like the market had just crashed? Allow me to enlighten you… 1. Nobody is trading stocks anymore, all of the most aggressive and vocal traders are doing options. This is how a slip of 1.5% on the S&P can…

“Remembering I’ll be dead soon…”

I just slept for 12 hours overnight and woke up in the pitch black thinking about too many things. Things I have to do, things I want to do and things I’m afraid of. This usually helps me… “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me…