Thursday, April 10, 2025

Warren Buffett's "Tariff" proposal from 2003

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I recently re-read Warren Buffett's 2003 article  in which he bemoans the fact that Foreigners own $2.5 Trillion more of the US than Ame...
Saturday, April 05, 2025

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  The Hidden Asymmetry in Global Trade: How the Lack of a U.S. VAT Disadvantages American Producers In the ongoing debates over trade defi...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Predicting Berkshire Hathaway stock price from current "Price/Book" Ratio

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On the one hand, if the stock market is "Efficient", then one should not be able to predict how much the stock will go up or down ...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2020

March 2020: California Corona/COVID Cases doubled every 3.6 days without a break.

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This post is written April 1 2020 but it is most decidedly and unfortunately NOT a joke.  I feature the data prominently because in an expo...
Friday, September 02, 2016

How To Get a Working Browser after a Windows Vista Restore (or Reinstall)

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I have an old Dell PC running Windows Vista Home Premium.  It had a number of "broken" things in its system, it couldn't see W...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Why Innovative Energy is a Bad Investment, or Why the Government Should Fund It, and Other Brilliant Observations About Energy

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Bill Gates has said  a bunch of brilliant thing about innovations in Energy which have been reported in a article in The Atlantic.  I'...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Using the Audio Jack for power and digital interface to smartphones!

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If you have seen credit car readers on smartphones, you will see they are a small block that plugs into the smartphone's audio jack, wha...