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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • July 31, 2014
  • Chuck Osborne

Wake-Up Call?

I promised when we started this electronic newsletter that we would not clog your inbox just because some amount of time had gone by since our last Insight. We write when there is something of meaning that bares commentary. I also promised not to weigh in on newsworthy subjects outside of our expertise, so while…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • June 12, 2014
  • Chuck Osborne

Insider Trading

Not much is happening in the markets worth writing about. No news is good news I suppose, but there is one bit of entertainment happening which may be a learning moment. As the golf world readies itself for the U.S. Open Championship one of the PGA Tour’s biggest stars, Phil Mickelson, is under investigation for…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • May 16, 2014
  • Chuck Osborne

It’s Just Math!

I know that everyone does not think like I do, but somehow I am always surprised by how so many people just do not get math. For thirteen years I drove the same car. It was a great car and I loved it. Nothing lasts forever though, and I finally had to replace the vehicle….


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • April 3, 2014
  • Chuck Osborne

March Madness

It has been a while since we sent out our last Insight, because there really has not been much of note in the investing world. That is not true of world events lately but we are not here to pontificate on everything, only those things that impact your investment portfolios. Sometimes, however, something happens that…


  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • March 4, 2014
  • Chuck Osborne

The New World

We start this week with the realization that we now live in what George Friedman, PhD., founder and chairman of Strafor Global Intelligence, calls the “Post-Post-Cold War World.” He freely admits it is a poor name, but it is the only one he has at the moment. The “Post-Cold War World” was a world dominated…