the hypocrisy of american capitalism

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 15, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 4 comments   Whew! Its tough to type, “the hypocrisy of American capitalism” just knowing that so many folks have “dyed in the wool” faith in their own personal capitalism. So lest I leave a potentially controversial statement out there for too long, let me get straight to the point… In my opinion, capitalism is supposed to be about, as Joseph Schumpeter and others before...
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crudeness

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 12, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 1 comment   …and by crudeness, I mean oil prices. I wanted to copy the text of an e-mail that I sent out to friends and family back on July 21, 2008: “Hello Friends and Family, Normally I do not send out bulk e-mails…however I have believed for a couple of years now that market speculators have done much to drive up the price of our natural resources in the last three years. I have...
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hubris sucks, pt. 2

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 11, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 11 comments   So I realized early this morning (5:30 here in the forgotten time zone) that I neglected to fully empower each of you with actionable information yesterday. I rambled on about hubris without giving you the full tools necessary to ferret it out at a prospective or current business. Yes, it’s true that I defined the difference between “swagger” and “hubris,”...
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media bias is a real thing

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 9, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 14 comments   Hello all! For today’s post I wanted to have a conversation with you about something that is discussed mostly by the right wing folks in our country, namely that there is a media bias. My personal credibility in discussing this issue comes primarily from the fact that for nearly a decade as a professional investor my primary job was to read, process and act on news. At the end of my...
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when logic & proportion have fallen sloppy

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 26, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 2 comments   Big numbers are difficult to grasp…and here is an exercise to demonstrate this fact. For those of you who know me then you have probably been through this before – sorry, in advance. ***** Question 1: If you had exactly a million dollars and spent a dollar a second, how long would it take for you to spend the whole million? Answer: Approximately 11 days. ***** Question 2: If...
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stock market runup is unwarranted

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 13, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog, Predictions | 6 comments The news today that the Dow Jones Industrial Averages was up 936 points, or 11.1%, has spread like wildfire. NASDAQ was up 11.8%. The S&P 500 was up 11.6%. Wow! That felt good, didn’t it? Problem is…not much has changed. In my last post I said that certain conditions had to be met that would ensure that a bottom had been reached in financial markets and that it was safe to invest...
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the solid foundation underneath

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 8, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 6 comments I know that many of us are having a difficult time mustering faith in our economy. With your permission I would like to talk about the solid foundation lying underneath the economy. In order to do that though I need to make sure that each of us understands what the economy really represents. For most of us, the economy is a very abstract thing and if asked to define it I feel that most of us...
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