As I sit here financial blogging in the Outer Banks (on some neighbour’s unsecure wireless network), we have a small child playing in the corner with a toy rocket launcher, and four boys (ages 11-14) engrossed in a game of Texas Hold’em. For a moment, the boys all pop up their heads in surprise as Maddie (eight) lobs a perfect round squarely into [...]
July 15, 2008
Trading update #49; 14JUL08 … buying the melt-down
The coffee-pot is gurgling and sputtering, the smell of fresh coffee wafting across the room. Sunlight is streaming in from every angle into the 3rd floor bay-windowed living room of the 3-story Hatteras summer home. Everyone else is still asleep, last night’s Scrabble game is sitting on the dining room table beside me, and a [...]
