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One of the most dependable rules of investing is that stocks as a whole revert to their mean price-earnings ratio over time. When stock prices are high compared to company earnings, on a historical basis, you can count on prices to come down in the long run. But why? Is…

Goals work great for simple situations. But the world is rarely simple these days. You don’t know what your career will look like in a year. You don’t know what the economy will be doing, or which new technologies will hit the scene. Your personal life is just as unpredictable….

About a year ago I blogged that I was trying to “sell” an idea to a venture capitalist. The experiment involved asking publicly (here) if a venture company would give me 5% equity in a start-up for doing nothing but describing a good idea. For qualified investors, I would describe…

I’m an early adapter of Google’s new $35 Chromecast product. I ordered it as soon as I read about it, but not because I wanted the product. I wanted to test my powers of pattern recognition. I do that sometimes. If you live long enough, you can predict which sorts of things…

Warning: This blog is written for a rational audience that likes to have fun wrestling with unique or controversial points of view. It is written in a style that can easily be confused as advocacy or opinion. It is not intended to change anyone’s beliefs or actions. If you quote from…

What is the single most important, optional thing that parents can do to ensure the happiness and success of a child? For today’s topic, I’m assuming that taking care of a child’s health is mandatory, not optional. And the law says you have to send your kid to school, or home school….

Warning: This blog is written for a rational audience that likes to have fun wrestling with unique or controversial points of view. It is written in a style that can easily be confused as advocacy or opinion. It is not intended to change anyone’s beliefs or actions. If you quote from…

Update: A writer for Jezebel has accepted my offer. Look for updates as they happen. Lately I have been getting many complaints about this blog from the LRC (Low Reading Comprehension) Community, mostly on my Pegs and Holes post from last week. Here’s a sampling.  Huffington Post Salon Mediabistro Mediate…

Some of you might have seen my opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday on the topic of teaching entrepreneurial skills to kids. It was inspired by a blog post you might have seen here. As I wrote the article, I wondered why our school system is so mismatched to…

Over at Salon.com, the poorly informed are in full unibation mode over their shared hallucinations of my Men’s Rights post. I trotted over to set things right, intending to have my usual fun, but their registration system is either broken or for some other reason failing to send me an…

If I were to say that Elbonians and rats have something in common – specifically their love of cheese, would that be seen as an insult to Elbonians? Answer: Yes. While the point of the analogy is extraordinarily clear, and limited to a love of cheese, most people would wonder…

Did you hear about the Bangladeshi brick company that beheaded an employee to improve the color of its bricks? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bangladesh/7493874/Bangladeshi-man-beheaded-to-redden-bricks.html This tragic incident raises many questions. The article is vague, but I assume a supervisor or some sort of boss was leading this strategy. So I wonder how the employee…

Today I discovered I am on a list of famous people who have dyslexia. This made me happy, not only because I am in good company, but because the lits si alphabetical os I ma no otp. http://hometownhollywood.com/2008/09/70-famous-dyslexics/#comment-87 [no longer available] I don’t understand why having something in common with…

As promised, here are the results of my survey of economists. You can see three views into the results today, and I plan to blog more about it this week.  (Format problems are because my blogging software is finnicky.) 1. My opinion on the results, on CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/dilbert.economy/index.html  2. Detailed survey…