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30 Nov, 2006 5:18 pm
... Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business - Charles Munger]. Here is
an excerpt from that speech (note: I can't guarantee this is verbatim): I'm going to play a minor ... and bang 'em back. If the facts
don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form. You've ...
think we are uniquely positioned among law schools to produce lawyers who do that..." As for Munger, when it comes to his Latticework ideas,
i've found him to be a man ahead of his ...
26 Feb, 2008 6:00 pm
... , Tolles & Olson, has been in the news lately for real estate reasons. Munger owns the building that houses the popular Dutton's
bookstore in Brentwood, Los Angeles. ... Angeles Times: The property [housing Dutton's] is owned by billionaire investor Charles
T. Munger and his wife, Nancy. A founder of the Los Angeles law firm ... 1978 with Warren E. Buffett
to run Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a holding company. Munger was in Washington on Monday and could not be reached. He said in a statement that he
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30 Sep, 2007 2:38 pm
... 's New York Times Talking Business column Can We Turn Off Our Emotions When Investing?, few of us could make the boast ascribed to Los Angeles lawyer Charles T. Munger when asked the secret to being a great investor. "I'm
rational," he said. Lawyers, Economists and " ... to detect and interpret simple patterns . . . leads us to assume that order exists where it often doesn't," misleading "economic man" to search for and act on "trends that are consistent and repeatable (even though ...
16 May 5:00 am
... 0 0 260,939 Richard M. Libenson 34,000 222,939 0 0 256,939 John W. Meisenbach 33,000 222,939 0 0 255,939 Charles T. Munger 43,000 222,939 0 0 265,939 Jeffrey S. Raikes* 0 0 0 0 0 Jill S. Ruckelshaus 36,000 222,939 0 0 258,939 ...
Evans, a director since January 2003, also sits on the boards of NIC Inc., and Archimedes Technology Group. Mr. Munger, a director since
January 1997, also serves on the boards of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Daily Journal Corporation, and Wesco Financial ...
18 Mar, 2007 9:31 am
... granting of stock options. The Company will cooperate fully with the inquiry. As the Company has previously reported, its Board of Directors appointed a special committee consisting
of independent directors Daniel J. Evans, William H.Gates, and Charles T. Munger to review its historical stock option grantpractices in order to determine if the stated grant dates were supported bythe Company's books and records.
While ...
26 May, 2008 10:27 am
... across this audio file of a talk given at Harvard Law School in 1995 by Charles Munger, entitled
"Causes of Human Misjudgment." Munger is a Harvard Law alum and a founding partner of the L.A. law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olsen. He later left the firm to run an investment fund. In the mid-1970s, he ... the Nobel Prize). I am particularly interested in
applied behavioral economics. And here I don't mean writing papers on the topic; rather, I mean honing my own decisionmaking processes to ...
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16 Apr, 2008 7:35 am
... second element necessary for a Ponzi scheme is a suitable crowd for your pitch. It was not accident that Charles Ponzi sold his securities
to working class Italians in Boston. What is Arlan's ... a very attractive pitch to farmers who face a Hobson's dilemma: there doesn't seem any
good way to make money, so why not take a ... . Now you can see how the three elements, when combined together, have what Charlie Munger calls
a lollapalooza result. A farmer who is first skeptical of Arlan's scheme, invests a ...
16 Dec, 2008 1:13 am
... The proper use of these principles produces a near automatic response of compliance. Charlie Munger has dubbed combinations of these
techniques which lead to crazy results as a lollapazoola ... have gotten away with a scheme this big, and for so long." "The cops can't catch
every crook, but a sophisticated financial system should be able to spot a ... received warnings about Mr. Madoff over several years. While the SEC can't seriously pursue every tip, there was probably enough smoke emanating from Mr. ...
4 Jun, 2008 3:29 pm
... I had an interesting public (albeit buried) exchange on this point a few weeks ago. Bill found a talk given by Charles Munger (founder of the Munger, Tolles law firm and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway) entitled "The Causes of
Human ... of the assessment so affected? And so on. The empirical dream is to unite "is" and "ought" with a complete understanding of the "is." Kant didn't think that was possible. Your reason wants to follow the infinite regress to the infinite end, and to see the world ...
4 May 4:41 am
... Weil rails against those BofA shareholders that didn't withhold their votes (despite the quote from Prof. Charles Elson in the article, who properly recognizes that the level of withhold ... those that read this blog for putting up with my personality. I'm sure I
won't get more refined with age. I'm excited about our upcoming webcast - "Looking ... m excited to see that another of the old-timer bloggers,
Mike O'Sullivan of Munger, Tolles & Olson, is back on the scene blogging again after a five year ...
10 Dec, 2007 5:01 am
... feel good. (The hair stylist bit is our attempt to avoid repeating our friend Charles Munger's
comparison of compensation consultants to a different service profession.) The Waxman Theory - that consultants who perform other lucrative jobs for the CEO won't give objective compensation advice - makes sense, but we believe Mr. Waxman is digging into a side dish while neglecting the main course. ...
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