Larry Swedroe, principal of an asset management company and investment book author, also posted his Lessons That 2008 Taught Us In 2008 on SeekingAlpha. It was a nice compilation that covered a variety of topics from active management to Madoff to your "Plan B". Here are some excerpts of a few lessons involving investing [...]

The three boys of the band Disgustitron and I are sitting in the back patio area of one of my favorite Portland bars, Plan B. DRUNK but still able to manage the interview, we chain smoke and talk abou...

 

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This Sunday morning, out of the prolonged silence of Quaker worship, a Friend spoke referring to the idea of always having a "Plan B" just in case "Plan A" doesn't work. He observed that when it came to acting out of love ? which he called "Plan A" ? there is no Plan B.

Different options don't work.

And if for some reason what you are doing under Plan A isn't quite working out (we all know the feeling), you don't give up on love's plan; you rework it.

I have that feeling about war and conflict too. We either love each other or we destroy each other.

It's Plan A or nothing.

Today, brilliant with color, God's own Plan A was on glorious display.

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Hello! I hope you had a lovely holiday - and if you had snow like we did, I hope you had a nice, relaxing vacation! We did! Not only were we "snowed in," but I was also without a computer for about a week (did you notice?). So there was much baking and eating and playing of board games, and reading and going for walks in the snow to do our last-minute Christmas shopping at Value Village and the pawn shop on the corner! (Since we couldn't drive anywhere, and it's not like I would go to the mall anyway.)

We watched VCR movies and played long games of Rail Baron with the kids. It's a game where you buy railroads and travel to destinations and collect money when people ride on your railroad and stuff. We are really into it. We played the UK version which took three days and we are now playing the Australian version.
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In the post Plan B for Fund Raising Guy Kawasaki describes the implosion that can result from the traditional ("Plan A") approach to startup fund raising, which involves making a bet on raising a large amount of money. If all...