Archive for July 3rd, 2009

Of Rats and Men

Andy Spero | July 3, 2009 | 0 Comment(s) |

We are in the midst of writing a rather long post on the similarities between teenage girls with low blood sugar and daily and intra-day changes in equity prices. Namely, one can see huge swings in behavior, attitudes, and mood caused by seemingly very minor underlying events, e.g., “she looked at me the wrong way.” The “she” in this case being an eight-year-old sister.

However, we couldn’t complete that post because another thought keeps diverting our (limited) attention from it.

We were driving with the Chairman earlier today when she… Read the rest

Global Warming?

Andy Spero | July 3, 2009 | 0 Comment(s) |

It has been very cool and very rainy in Western Pennsylvania during the past few weeks, and the forecast calls for day-time high temperatures to remain in the seventies–with lows in the 50s–for the next week or so. It’s early July near the 40th parallel, and nearly all the windows are closed (and we are at an altitude of about 1,200 ft, not 12,000).

For nearly three months we’ve been thermally comfortable but have used neither the heat nor the air conditioning at world headquarters, which makes us a particularly… Read the rest