Category: Finance

February 14, 2014

Moralism and the Facts — The Pillars of Paul Cabot's Investment Strategy

We conclude our week-long feature on Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, with an excerpt from the epilogue. In these excerpts, Yogg considers some of the core values that shaped Cabot’s investment strategy and...

February 13, 2014

Paul Cabot's Jeremiad

In the following passage from Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, Michael Yogg examines Paul Cabot’s ideas about reform for the financial industry and the characteristics of a good investment manager. He also looks...

February 11, 2014

Interview with Michael Yogg, author of "Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot"

The following is an interview with Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot. Find out how to win a FREE copy of Passion for Reality! Question: Why did you chose to...

January 22, 2014

Interview with Dean Starkman, author of "The Watchdog That Didn't Bark"

“Journalism can be the antidote to corruption…. It gives the public a fighting chance to understand complex problems when powerful institutions betray their trust and act against the public interest. It can be a clarifying force, without which democracy in...

January 15, 2013

Interview with Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated

In the following interview with The Street, Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, discusses some of his insights about investing. Marks points to the complexity of the stock market and the...

December 5, 2012

From The Best American Magazine Writing 2012: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests by Matt Taibbi

“People want out of this fiendish system, rigged to inexorably circumvent every hope we have for a more balanced world.”—Matt Taibbi One of the more inspiring and effective relief efforts to emerge in the wake of Hurricane Sandy has been...

October 11, 2012

Jennifer Morrison Taw on economic trade-offs and the military

Jennifer Morrison Taw discusses the foreign policy ramifications of overbudgeting for defense.

May 25, 2012

Ryan Chittum and Felix Salmon on the Facebook IPO Fiasco

Ryan Chittum and Felix Salmon look at the ugly events around the Facebook IPO.

July 2, 2010

Michael Mauboussin on the Big Think

Michael Mauboussin, author of More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded), was recently featured on Big Think. In the interview, Mauboussin, who is also the Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management, argues...

June 3, 2010

Kenneth Posner: Planning for a World of Black Swans

Unpredictable events or “Black Swans,” a term popularized by Nassim Taleb, are a facet of the twenty-first century economy and we should learn how to live with it rather than wish them away. In a recent essay for the Huffington...