In this third and final post related to The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm, this week I will talk about the ways that Fromm says we can learn how to master the art of love and how it can be applied to serving one’s customers.
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The Philosophical Investor's Blog
10 Year Stock History Key To Current Monster Returns
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Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
I am always interested in investments that perform very well for long periods of time. I periodically look back on stocks that were the best performing over ten year periods to see if there are any common characteristics of stock history that can help me make better investment decisions in the future.
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Haiku Living - Life & Investing Lessons from Limits Set By Haiku
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
I have had a fascination with the unique form of Japanese poetry known as haiku. I’m not quite sure why this is the case other than it just seems so unconventional, interesting, somewhat mysterious, and beautiful and strange at the same time. I think it might also have to do with the wonderful aspects of Japanese culture: Its attention to detail,
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Insurance and Questionable Models Managing Risk
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell 
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O’Connor
This blog post is pretty much just for me as insurance is not a very exciting topic but has great importance to all property owners,
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London Calling and Prague ress
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
A significant percentage of CWS’ property insurance has been placed in London since 2010. After having CWS representatives visit London to meet our incumbent carriers and prospective ones over the past nine years, I thought it was time to join our head of Risk Management, CFO,
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Mind the Gap - Are We Our Own Worst Enemies?
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
International travel calls so this blog will be on the shorter side. It is fairly well known from research and the school of hard knocks that we are our own worst enemies when it comes to investing. Our emotions, particularly fear and greed, often lead us to buy towards the top and sell when it is closer to a bottom.
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Psychopaths Don't Always Finish First
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
Shakespeare said, “[a]ll the world’s a stage.” All of us are actors in the plays of our lives.
The best actors make us believe they are not acting by morphing into whatever role they play with the totality of their humanity. The worst ones are not very believable.
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A Dose of Reality - Are Things As Bad As They Look?
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
Maybe it’s because we just had a Friday the 13th or because my home was one of the houses that had to be evacuated in the recent Orange County fires (fortunately it was not damaged) or perhaps because I recently saw an ex-CIA lawyer and analyst speaking about how successful the Russians were in subverting our democracy during the 2016 elections and how at risk we are to cyber attacks from Russia,
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Hineni Here I Am - Answering the Call
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
My wife was telling me about a woman interviewed by CBS news in the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre and what she shared was incredibly moving. She truly did a heroic thing in staying with a young man while he was dying and being there for him in the face of great danger.
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The B.I.S. vs. Japan - Increase In Global Interest Rates?
by Gary Carmell
Gary Carmell
A few weeks ago I wrote about a B.I.S. report that hypothesized that global interest rates would rise over the next few decades as global demographics shift from a labor supply shock to a shortage as labor forces shrink in many developed countries.
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