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Writing is an important tool for personal intellectual development even if you never intend to share your work with others.
This post is a list of books that I read in the first quarter of 2025, including The Lessons of History, American Journey, the works of Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon, and more.
Berkshire has introduced a retirement age of eighty for most directors, a surprising development given Warren Buffett's prior statements.
A new book by Alex Morris distills key insights and wisdom from three decades of Berkshire Hathaway annual meetings.
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I sold my rental property last year, after owning it over 20 years. It’s a lovely property, worth around £1m, right in the heart of London – near the middle of the map below. I used to live in it, I travel past it regularly, I know its neighbourhood well. The Modern Flat has genuinely… Continue reading A stupid decision to sell my rental property →
This is something to watch with less international travel. Here are the daily travel numbers from the TSA. This data is as of April 16, 2025. Click on graph for larger image. Air travel is up about 1.3% YoY.
We study the rise of Vanguard, the index fund management company, as a case study of how customer demand is not always about pain.
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Housing and Demographics Housing Starts Decreased to 1.324 million Annual Rate in March Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing Home Inventory appear Different 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in March
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