Posts Tagged ‘Sifting Through’
The Challenge of a Balance Sheet Recession
The Daily Reckoning Fears of a relapse in economic activity are stalking professional investors, judging by the fall in Treasury bond yields, the sagging equity indexes and the softening of commodity prices over the past month or so. Our stated position has been that investors got ahead of themselves with all the “green shoots” rhetoric. This is clearly not your garden-variety recession, so operating from the typical playbook is not advisable. Sifting through the volumes of macro statistic
Dumpster Diving
Back in the day (that would be around 1995 or so), I travelled around the States for about a year and a half, and met lots of folks who were dumpster divers . As Wikipedia explains, “Dumpster diving is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential trash to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but which may be useful to the dumpster diver.” It’s a really brilliant way to reuse existing and functional objects, and though it has a bad rap it’s really one of the gree