SKEPTICAL EMPIRICIST, BULLISH NOTHING (SAVE MAYBE THE AMERICAN SPIRIT), AMATEUR MIXOLOGIST, NOSTALGIC, AESTHETE, HUMANIST, BOULEVARDIER, ABSURDIST, PHOBOPHOBE, CAUTIOUS OPTIMIST, DUNNING-KRUGER BENEFICIARY, NO PERMANENT OPINIONS.

INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY:

Rule one: don't die.

Nimium boni est, cui nihil est mali. (The good is mostly in the absence of bad.) - Quintus Ennius

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.) - Seneca

Ein chadash tachat hashemesh. (Nothing new under the sun.) - King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 1:9

Besser gut schlafen, als gut essen. (It is better to sleep well than to eat well.) - Phibro

Beati sunt possidentes. (Blessed are those in possession.) - Carl von Clausewitz

Τύχην στέργε (Love fate.) - Apollo

In the long run, everything is a toaster. - Bruce Greenwald

There's always money in the banana stand. - George Bluth Sr.