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I don’t know, Arkady. When I was thirty I had a kid, and decided it was time to learn. The big-picture stuff like asset allocation and index funds doesn’t seem all that hard. We’re not talking options and commodities and futures here 🙂
I don’t know whether this site got famous over in the US. It’s basically an australian guy making fun of people.
http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html
He’s also the guy behind the recent spoof that a local McD’s had a policy to a “accidentally” leave out items in the drive-thru in order to boost profits.
http://www.27bslash6.com/images/maccas.jpg
My word!
m4l, standards drop precipitously after 6 beers.
Snappy, that book sounds fascinating. I was the raisin in the cream of wheat during my entire childhood, but can’t imagine what growing up black in Nazi Germany would be like. I’m adding this one to my list. The sandhogs book also sounds great.
Dead Lenin Cake = 543 posts.
We have competition, folks!!!
Let’s step it up.
Speed dating for (& among) PLUSAs?
hey snappy, I read a lot of both Holocaust and Afam-lit, so naturally I own and have read that one 🙂
Another kinda mixed up book that I really like is Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black Russian American Family 1865-1992 by Yelena Khanga.
I didn’t know that a small number of African American families moved to Russia around the depression. It seemed captialism was dying and racism was alive and well, so communism seemed a reasonable choice at the time. Anyway she became famous as Russia’s first sex columnist and I think came here for a while.
DIBS, they dont meet your standard of big & hard guns & buns