Gary Carmell
With this being Memorial Day I thought I would take a slightly different spin to honor this holiday. I, of course, want to thank everyone who has served to help protect our country.
The first people to honor and offer our most sincere form of gratitude is to those in the armed forces who literally putting their lives on the line to defend our country.
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Gary CarmellYou are probably wondering why the author, business executive, investor Gary Carmell, author of The Philosophical Investor Transforming Wisdom into Wealth is holding a banana!
A lot can be learned from a simple example.
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My book focuses significantly on the powerful intersection between intelligent investing and intelligent living and the importance of having a way of viewing the world that is quite independent and quite authentic.
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Gary CarmellHere is part two of Investing Haiku:
Don’t overlook people
Projections soon become moot
People steer the ship
Great investors read
They are never not reading
Stay curious all the time
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Gary Carmell
[Updated – May 4, 2016] As real estate investors, we’re obviously big consumers of capital, particularly debt financing. Given this, it’s important to have a view (hopefully a correct one) regarding interest rates. I look at many indicators to help me gauge where I think rates may be headed.
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Gary Carmell
Since I will be a traveling man for the next few weeks, I thought I would tap into some of my right brain abilities, limited as they may be, and share some haiku investing with you for the next two weeks. Haikus are pretty fun to noodle around with because of the limits they impose on the creator of them.
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Gary Carmell
Rather than diving into deep philosophical exposition and heavy economics, I thought I would go a different direction this week and share some random thoughts and items that have caught my attention recently.
My 14 Random Thoughts
Garry Shandling –
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Gary Carmell
It is hard for anyone to argue that one’s parents have not been quite influential over the course of one’s life for good and bad. This is especially true for the father-son relationship. In mythology, the father often represents the duality of growth and destruction (harshness and discipline).
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Gary Carmell
The CFA Institute recently polled its members regarding whether the United States will enter into a recession in 2016. 875 members responded and the following table shows the results.
Will the US Experience a Recession in 2016?
Source: CFA Institute Financial NewsBrief
70% are in the camp that a recession will not take place in 2016.
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Gary Carmell
I promise this is the last time in 2015 that I will discuss interest rates and my strong belief that the Fed is making a big mistake by raising rates, which is expected to happen this week. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, then multiple pictures should be worth many thousands of words.
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Gary Carmell
The horrific shootings in San Bernardino seemed to confirm the inevitable that fundamentalist Islamic terror would eventually hit the United States in a less spectacular fashion than 9/11. This was carried out by essentially a home-grown individual who seemed to integrate well in the work environment that he left in a wake of carnage.
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