Monthly Archives: January 2012
¿Cómo le ha ido a España en esta crisis?
Que España está inmersa una crisis seria no es noticia. Como tampoco lo es que algunas personas lo anunciaban antes de que la crisis en sí llegase. Hace unos días terminé de leer el libro “This Time is Different”, escrito … Continue reading
Filed under Economy
Gains with a negative performance?
I wrote some months ago a post in the blog where I showed how you lose money with swings in the market of the same percentage (e.g. -10% followed by +10% or vice versa). In another post I explained how … Continue reading
Filed under Investing
Which NGOs will I support in 2012?
Every January I take one afternoon to direct at least 0.7% of my personal net income to different NGOs. I already explained this in a post last year. In that post I also explained the origin of the figure, 0.7%. This year, … Continue reading
Filed under Helping others
Trickery, deception and women
The official “C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception“, by H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace (248 pages), is a book based on a manual prepared by the former magician John Mulholland (1898-1970) and commissioned by the C.I.A. during the Cold … Continue reading
Savings and consultants
Last Friday, I wrote a post about a measure by the US DoD to produce efficiencies by publishing the actual cost of the preparation of each report and study in the front of each document. As part of that same “Defense Efficiencies … Continue reading
Filed under Aerospace & Defence, Twitter & Media
Savings and reports
Yesterday I had a hilarious conversation with 3 work colleagues on the cost of several things: ranging from the cost of having 30 people enclosed in a day-long meeting to the cost impact of having the toilets of a whole … Continue reading
Filed under Aerospace & Defence
Course des Rois
Villemur-sur-Tarn is a small village by the river Tarn, about 40km North from Toulouse. Last Sunday I went there early in the morning to take part in the Course des Rois, a 10km race that was organized there. Last time … Continue reading
Filed under Sports
San Silvestre 2011
Running the popular San Silvestre Vallecana is, no doubt, the best possible farewell event for the year. Some of you may think that it is too cold, that running is too hard, that you are not prepared, that you would have … Continue reading
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The Republic of Poyais
While I was in primary and high school, History never caught much my attention. And today is not otherwise in a broad sense, but I enjoy reading some historical notes on certain subjects. I am reading these days the book … Continue reading
Our investment fund in 2011
Luca and I have been investing together for 3 years. Last year I wrote a post in which I explained how we had adopted for our personal investments the same approach mutual open-ended funds have. As I explained last year, … Continue reading
Filed under Investing
