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Why I Like The Stock Market—Reason #3

I like the stock market because it’s unlike a traditional job. For the time being, for me, I still very much have to work. So, while my investing activities happen to run parallel to my employment activities, I get, instead of some longing to discontinue the job I am not so perfectly suited for, a [...]

Why I Like The Stock Market – Reason #2

I like the stock market because it defies our wiring. It trumps learned experience, divorces our inherited instruction set and introduces new paths to old goals. All that from stocks?
When we drink a glass of water, there is a certain and necessary route we’re just going to have to take. We have to take a [...]

Why I Like The Stock Market – Reason #1

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (when I was in school), I learned how to hate something with shocking effectiveness: group projects. In fact, I am so effective at it now, that I can translate my incompatibility with it into the defining benefit of solitary production. Beautiful, untarnished circular logic. Solitary [...]