More On The Folly of Market Timing
More of Kirk's thoughts on market timing and why he uses asset allocation instead. I can list many more but I believe the market pretty much is correctly priced as a whole for all known info. People's sentiment then moves it one way or the other ... [... more]
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Jim Powell
Jim Powell is the author of Wilson's War, FDR's Folly, and The Triumph of Liberty. Currently the R. C. Hoiles Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, he has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, American Heritage, Barron's, ... [... more]
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The Road to Verdun
World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism On February 21, 1916, the Germans launched a surprise offensive at Verdun, an important fortress in northeastern France, sparking a brutal and protracted conflict that would claim ... [... more]
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Irene Nemirovsky
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable .. [... more]
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Blood, Tears & Folly
 An intriguing analysis: This book is well written and thought out. The focus is on key figures and actions of the early part of the 2nd world war. The author provides a brief overview of what actually happened and introduces the major figures of the [... more]
CDN$22.03
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Thale's Folly
the very best kind of folly . . .: It's very true that a less-than-terrific book by Dorothy Gilman is still much more fun to read than an excellent one by a lesser light. This book is so well set-up that I fell head-long under its myriad charms, but kept [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
My local bookstore is buying 75 copies - it is THAT good....: My local bookstore is buying 75 copies of this book. Yes, folks, it really is THAT good. (And it sold 30 copies in the first week!) If even the great Winston Churchill could mess up in Iraq, [... more]
CDN$21.50
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Flinx's Folly
A Bit Too Haphazard: This is the eighth in Alan Dean Foster's series about a boy and his flying mini-dragon. Of course, Flinx is no longer a boy, has some very strange mental powers, and has managed to attract the attention of a host of unsavory [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Grasping the Nettle
We call a nettle but a nettle and the faults of fools but folly. Shakespeare's characters seem to have shared a common prejudice against the nettle, Cordelia listing it among the "idle weeds." When, as children, my siblings and I brushed ... [... more]
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Fame & Folly: Essays
From Amazon.com: In this collection of essays, fiction writer and critic Cynthia Ozick has chosen to take on an important topic for all writers: how the lives and works of authors fit in with the times. It is a task she manages with more than a healthy [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II
An intriguing analysis: This book is well written and thought out. The focus is on key figures and actions of the early part of the 2nd world war. The author provides a brief overview of what actually happened and introduces the major figures of the [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Striding Folly
The final adventures of Lord Peter: This unabridged audio edition is read by Ian Carmichael, who portrayed Lord Peter in quite a few BBC TV adaptations in the 1970s, such as _The Nine Tailors_, although not _Strong Poison_ or the other stories of Lord [... more]
CDN$9.99
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