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Forsooth - from Old and Middle English originally meant "in truth", "in fact", or "indeed". Currnet usage is "to express disbelief".
~Rhonda
Thanks photogal and ... forsooth! You never know what you're gonna learn on this forum.
dude-did you ever read up on Steven Jobs? My biggest financial mistake was listening to a financial expert when he me advised against putting money in Apple....years ago...we'd be on easy street...Do you ever watch that Donnie Deutsch (sp?) on MSNBC? I could have invented Spanx, had the idea, but she followed through...
Angela, Jobs is a fascinating guy and has done a heck of a job at Apple. There's a saying that opportunities are made up easier than losses. You win some and you lose some. I laugh at the know-it-all "experts." Look at the geniuses at Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup. None of those geniuses saw that the debt bubble could end badly. It's funny because it happens once every 10 or 20 years and they never see it coming.
A guy named William Bernstein said (something like) there's 3 kinds of people: those who don't know they don't know what the markets will do, those who know they don't know what the markets will do, and those who know they don't know but whose jobs depend on them looking like they do know. The latter are often wrong, but they just keep making predictions and occasionally they get it right.
Bernstein is an interesting guy. He's written the book "The Four Pillars of Investing," which is a classic of common sense investing. His advice isn't sexy, but it's a lot better than you'll find on CNBC. He's also a practicing neurologist (I think I remember you say your husband is a doctor, too).
Hey Bill,
Ask your wife how much she HATES William? I'm looking forward to someone's revenge on him & hoping someone chops off his...Some of the mandatory high school reading seems more appreciated, now that its not mandatory. (hope you had a nice BD)
Eva-I'm wondering if you read Plato's Republic? I have to give Siddharta another look, I think I read that in high school.
Lyn-Dante is hard enough in one's primary language...to get the most out of it, I've resorted to reading others summaries and commentaries. Components about human emotions will never change...look at how many circles of hell are in Rhonda's books?
Rhonda-Have you noticed some of the mandatory classics have dropped off in high school to satisfy agendas...not to get too controversial but some of the substitutes I've seen are not worth much on the literary end.
dragster-a girlfriend turned me onto Ray Bradbury in high school...I also enjoyed the Hobbits back then. I thought the Green Mile was excellent as a movie, never read any Stephen King.
dude-did you ever read up on Steven Jobs? My biggest financial mistake was listening to a financial expert when he me advised against putting money in Apple....years ago...we'd be on easy street...Do you ever watch that Donnie Deutsch (sp?) on MSNBC? I could have invented Spanx, had the idea, but she followed through...
Angela,
You too!
Hey dude- The first investing book I read was Jane Bryant-Quinn. She stills seems on the mark to me, as far as saving for college and the basics etc.. I've heard of Bernstein, but never read his book, but how true with his comments...I don't have a MBA, but I often think they don't know more than me. 
My cousin worked for Merill-Lynch in one of the twin towers in NY...I will never forget when I heard how much his Christmas bonus was in the mid-90's. What a life though, didn't see his young kids much during the week, slept at the office many a night...and the tide changed...ouch! The Donnie show I seem to catch on consecutive nights for a bit and it was business ideas and inventions and holding patents on ideas, I'm not sure if that was just a series or that's the whole focus of his show now. To me, super high risk stuff = greed, then again, I've never been much of a gambler.
Bill,
It sounds like your wife is a candidate for the new Kindle (wireless reading device) from Amazon. It's only 10 ounces or so and I like that I can change the font size. I don't have mine yet, but it's on order.
Not that anyone probably rushed out to buy the Kindle on my recommendation, but I thought I'd note that I just canceled my order for it today after reading Walt Mossberg's negative review in the WSJ online. I think I'll wait for version 2.0.
If you are interested, here's a link to his review:
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/
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