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My Hat is in the Ring
Sunday, February 5th, 2012Hi. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll be brief. My name is John Pehrson and I’m running for president of the United States as a member of the Bull Moose Party (BMP). Why the Bull Moose Party, you might ask? For two reasons: 1) This is the one hundredth anniversary of the Bull [...]
Measuring Investment Success
Saturday, November 5th, 2011How do you measure your investment performance? If you invested $10,000 and received back $20,000, was that a good performance? Possibly not. Why? Because the standard of measurement you are using, when you measure performance in dollar terms, is flawed. The IRS would like you to measure performance that way, because they do just fine. [...]
The Teacher
Sunday, July 24th, 2011Many years ago a contingent of her former pupils visited a retired teacher. Then in her late eighties, the teacher had spent over 40 years teaching in one-room rural schoolhouses in Northern Michigan during the early part of the twentieth century. As the only teacher – in fact the only adult – in the building, [...]
Insanity
Monday, September 22nd, 2008The height of insanity is to do the same thing on a computer two times in a row and expect the same result.
Giving back? What was taken?
Monday, August 18th, 2008“Giving back to the community.” Do you realize how many times that expression shows up in various articles each day? What does it mean? Well, I think I know what it means, and I don’t like it. The implication is that, if someone has become successful, it is because the “community” made him so. Success [...]
The Land Investor
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Hi. Welcome to my blog. I am a rural, vacant land investor. My investment strategy is unorthodox, as I believe in buying out of favor properties in locations that are not in the path of progress. I don’t buy and hold. I buy, add value, and sell. I believe my strategy is a low-risk, high [...]