Monday, January 09, 2006

Infectious Greed Provides Todays Entertainment

Mr Kedrosky's blog on Venture Capital stuff once again came up trumps with some entertainment this morning, which saved my from self destructing while trying to finalize my course slides for Distributech.

First up is pretty much an email fight between a Harvard Business School student, and Jim Rogers, a famous (and no doubt rich) investor. You can read it here.

Second, he confirms that there is a correlation between wealth and alchohol consumption (and it's a positive effect).
The drinker’s bonus — the finding that drinkers of alcohol earn more than non-drinkers — is one of my favorite spurious correlations, and there is a new paper out confirming its existence....
Gin and tonics for me tonight then...