This is a great time of year for sports fans. The NCAA Basketball Tournament, better known as March Madness, is one of those events that transcends sports as a cultural phenomenon. People who have not watched a basketball game since last March will sign up to enter their office pools and fill out brackets. The…
This past week all anyone wants to talk about seems to be Pete Carroll’s judgment, or lack thereof. For those who may have missed it, Pete Carroll is the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks who many think would have won the Super Bowl if he had simply called a run instead of a pass…
Anyone who has been reading our Insights and “The Quarterly Report” for a long time knows that I love sports. I especially love college basketball, which is easy to do when you are born in the middle of what college basketball fans refer to as Tobacco Road. Readers are also aware that my favorite team…
I am getting a lot of questions about the price of oil these days. Mainly people want to know how low we think it can go. Of course, the investing world seems to have a very short memory; it was only a few years ago when people were asking how high it could fly. The…
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! While we were eating our turkey the leaders of OPEC met to discuss their plan for oil production. As the price of oil has dropped dramatically many traders had expected OPEC to drop its production in an attempt to lower supply and get prices moving upward once more….
