Addendum to Prior Post – The Aleph Blog

Helping Institutions and Ordinary People Invest Better by Focusing on Risk Control

Posted on 16 October 2007 by David Merkel

Wouldn’t you know it, the first Baby Boomer filed for Social Security yesterday.? Good background information in the article, though a few of the figures can be questioned within bounds.

Full disclosure: long one autographed copy of A. Haeworth Robertson’s The Big Lie.

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Dane Gilmour says:

16 October 2007 at 11:32 pm

Your slideshow presentation was a great read. As a junior finance major at U. of Iowa, this was tremendously educational. I enjoyed your analysis of macroeconomic factors and their impact on US financial markets.

My question to you: Do you agree with Bill Gross that this will be the last bull market of his (and yours, maybe my) time? Will global inflation be that rampant over the next 20 years? How can we stop it?

Thanks!

dane gilmour

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