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Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall (Rambling Review)

Posted by Sean | September 9, 2008 .

title: Deflation
sub-title: What Happens When Prices Fall
pages: 194
author: Chris Farrell
published: 2004
rented: public library

Everyone knows about Inflation.
It sucks. We hate it. Make it go away!
But what about the flip side, Deflation?
It is rarely discussed in the U.S. because we have not seen it lately.
And talk of it coming back is (ahem!) not a topic for polite [...]

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Official Warren Buffet Biography: “The Snowball” (Due: Sept 29th)

Posted by Sean | August 13, 2008 .

breaking news:
Official Warren Buffet biography due in Sept.

The 976-page book is being written by former Morgan Stanley insurance analyst Alice Schroeder, and is titled The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

Amazon.com is already taking pre-orders.
Whew……
I thought Roger Lowenstein reached the pinnacle of Buffetology with his 1995 book, Buffet: The Making of an [...]

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Chipping Away At My Financial Pre-History

Posted by Sean | July 6, 2008 .

There has been a sharp uptick in references to the Great Depression, as you can see in the screenshot from Google News. But are the parallels accurate? Or do we simply have too few points of reference? For many Americans, our financial history begins with bleak tales of the 1930s, told by parents or grandparents, [...]

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Goal: Save $500 in Book Expenses using Public Library in 2008

Posted by Sean | May 29, 2008 .

I used to spend a lot at Amazon.com, but I’ve become a fan of the public library. With my increasing appetite for financial books, it makes sense to get them free. But more importantly, I want to nip the "clutterbug" in the bud. Far too many of the books on my bookshelf were only meant [...]

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