#Seinfeld was a huge financial success –> The top 25 richest living comedians: randalolson.com/2015/03/04/top… #dataviz http://t.co/vWSUgO1jIE—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) March 05, 2015
Superstar comedians make serious money nowadays
21 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, labour economics, occupational choice, TV shows Tags: comedians, entrepreneurial alertness, superstars
George Steinbrenner was not just a figure of Seinfeld’s imagination
18 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, sports economics, TV shows Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, Seinfeld
The value of the Yankees under the Steinbrenners. Not a bad investment. read.bi/18YaOY0 http://t.co/qIZso7TGS5—
Cork Gaines (@CorkGaines) March 26, 2015
Do vice funds out-perform the share market?
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, financial economics, market efficiency, TV shows Tags: active investing, efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness, ethical investing, passive investing, Sopranos, vice funds
The Vice Fund has outperformed the S&P 500 since 2004. They invest in sinful stocks as its managers describe it:
Designed with the goal of delivering better risk-adjusted returns than the S&P 500 Index. It invests primarily in stocks in the tobacco, alcohol, gaming and defence industries. Vice Funds believe these industries tend to thrive regardless of the economy as a whole.
The Vice Fund was founded in 2002 to specialise in socially irresponsible stocks such as gambling, alcohol , tobacco and defence contracting. The Vice Fund is not recession proof, but did do better in the 2009 market crash.
The Vice fund also has high management fees of 2%. Americans can buy Vanguard’s or Fidelity’s index funds and pay only 0.1% in expenses. The Vice Fund may have buckled under the heat because it has rebranded:
The Vice Fund is now called the Barrier Fund. The investment strategy and the portfolio manager have not changed… The Barrier Fund invests in companies, both domestic and foreign, within industries that have significant barriers to entry.
All is not lost, the Ave Maria Catholic Values Fund beat the market almost as handily as Vice.
To confuse further, the Catholic Values Fund revealed that it shared investments in defence contractors with the Vice Fund. The Vice Fund invested in staid Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
HT: Investing in Vice.
The alternative names considered for Captain Kirk
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, TV shows Tags: star trek
"The following are the last names we are considering for the Captain in STAR TREK." http://t.co/QiMdgQlE2g—
Lists of Note (@ListsOfNote) February 28, 2015
The relative death rate of professional wrestlers
04 Apr 2015 2 Comments
in health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice, TV shows Tags: Celebrities, pro wrestling
Are pro wrestlers dying at an unusual rate? 53eig.ht/1kS1OWE http://t.co/YOseSouz3d—
(@FiveThirtyEight) March 15, 2015
President Bartlett defends gay marriage
23 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, TV shows Tags: gay marriage, West Wing
Douglas Adams on new technologies
11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, technological progress, TV shows Tags: creative destruction, Douglas Adams, innovation, technology diffusion
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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