Felix Salmon
pestering preening potentates
Tuesday links work for peanuts
Someone is hiring writers and paying $10 for 600 words
Eliot Spitzer on Matt Taibbi’s Goldman Sachs piece: “good journalism, and good reading”
“Asset allocation will work most of the time in the future but not always” — that’s just saying it’s certain to fail.
Nice gapminderish source for OECD macroeconomic data
I’ve made the Power Grid! But they massively undercount the number of unique visitors that Reuters gets.
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“If you pay someone then you should like his answers to questions about this. Keep in mind no one can be correct every time but I think someone willing to make the effort to protect your assets and who can explain it easily to you is probably a keeper.”
I agree with this. You should follow the plan that you can understand.
“but not always” — that’s just saying it’s certain to fail.”
Are you saying that someone or some theory can be correct all of the time where investing is concerned? If it isn’t, chuck it?
$10 for 600 words? There are people out there offering (and getting pieces delivered ofr) a lot less than that. $1 for 300 I’ve seen…..
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with writing for glory rather than money. I’ve contributed probably a few thousand words to Wikipedia for zero dollars, and my Dad used to do software reviews for an old PC magazine for something like twenty bucks and a copy of the software. If they’d phrased the advert a bit differently, perhaps it wouldn’t look so crass. Then again…I’m guessing they don’t credit contributors, and their aim is to make money. So, yeah, screw ‘em.