by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 04 2013 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Georgetown University’s McDonough Business School played host to a watershed event in the history of business school education on 9 April 2013. Dean David Thomas announced that Georgetown is going to teach meditation to its business school students in a semester-long...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 29 03 2013 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Conventional wisdom holds that the lack of a legal framework for political and monetary union makes policy coordination within the EU and the eurozone impossible. Instead of solving crises, finance ministers race from one disaster to the next, with no real resolution....
by Jason Apollo Voss | 14 03 2013 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Earlier this year I wrote a post explaining the forgotten quantitative technique of rescaled range analysis, which was invented by hydrologist Harold Edwin Hurst and can be used to assess the nature and magnitude of variability in financial data over time. In a...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 07 03 2013 | Best of the Blog, Blog
The deal to take U.S. computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL) private provides an answer to a question that initially occurred to me many years ago while working as a portfolio manager during the dot.com era. My idea was to check the stock market’s discounting abilities with...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 12 02 2013 | Best of the Blog, Blog
A debate between those advocating for a fiat money supply and those advocating for a gold standard has been raging for nearly a century. It’s time to reframe this debate in order to highlight some of the intrinsic properties of gold that are germane to this...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 30 01 2013 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Editor’s note: Thanks to the diligence of Armin Grueneich this post has been amended to reflect the addition of step #5, below, in the calculation of the rescaled range. Rescaled range analysis is a statistical technique designed to assess the nature and...
