2008 September 04 « The Long Run Blog

Russia is for investors?

Sometimes, investors are just blind. It is not that they don’t know better; rather they actively choose to ignore pertinent information to the contrary. Or perhaps greed takes over and reason goes out the window. What brings this to mind is a bit of interesting news today. Read more »

September 4, 2008 Posted by Brett | Markets | contracts, rule of law, Russia | Leave a Comment

Going, But Not Forgetting

Just a couple of weeks in, and already I’m… leaving? True, unfortunately. As I said in my farewell post at ‘The Rogues Gallery’, there are times when circumstances demand that we make choices, and this is one of those times for me.

The short version is that the responsibiliities of my new job are in conflict with my desire to get out and randomly cast my pearls of wisdom before… wait, that’s a bad analogy. The truth is, I love blogging, and I’m grateful to everyone who visited The Long Run Blog in the short time I’ve been here. We’ve had some lively discussion, and I’ve had tremendous fund and learned an awful lot in a very short space of time. Read more »

September 4, 2008 Posted by Jon Blumenfeld | Admin/About TLRB | 3 Comments

About

Brett Spurr has been on and around Wall Street since the age of 19, nearly half a lifetime ago. He helped make investment decisions for a $15 billion mutual fund complex. While locking horns with CEOs was fun, he now runs a personal financial planning firm helping individuals navigate their financial lives. Brett is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ™ certificant and investment manager by day and a full-time geek who delights in debating all things financial or economic.

Karl Mamer is host of The Conspiracy Skeptic podcast, a 12-part look at conspiracies of today and the not too distant past. Karl is also the world’s greatest living proponent of Franglais. He also likes to bait Nigerian Bank Scammers and hosted his own podcast about teaching English in Seoul, South Korea. Karl lives in Toronto, Canada and works as a senior technical writer to pay the bills.

Julio Guardado is a former tech CEO who after surviving a tech start-up during the dot com bust decided to join the dark side and become an investment banker. While wining and dining CEO’s (we call it “locking horns”) is great, he enjoys getting inside their heads and companies even more. Julio also runs RV Investor, a web site that specializes in the recreational vehicle industry. Julio lives in Silicon Valley.

Jon Blumenfeld has been on and around Wall Street since 1989, as a trader and researcher in interest rates and their associated financial products. Most recently he was an Interest Rate Strategist at Bear Stearns and Co., where he was named to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-America Fixed Income Research team for Interest Rate Derivatives in 2007.

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