http://blog.aaronedelheit.com Explore the stock market, faith, Tikkun Olam and humor in no particular order Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:41:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This stunned me: http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/03/18/google-tv-ads/ I liked this new idea on how to motivate employees: Motivation for employees http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/03/11/a-new-idea-on-how-to-motivate-employees/ Great, great video from TED 2010 with chef Dan Barber about sustainable food. http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/03/11/a-love-affair-with-a-fish/ A very, very strange thing happened to a company I follow called Contango Oil & Gas (AMEX: MCF). This is an extremely well-run company that generates tons of cash from natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico. You couldn't ask for a more efficient and well run company. Consider that ... http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/03/09/contangos-strange-foray-into-gold/ Paul Kedrosky wrote a blog post on his Infectious Greed site on the famous Simon/Ehrlich bet. Here is a snippet: "After a decade of soaring commodity prices, plus related worries about resource scarcity, in 1980, Paul Ehrlich, a dour population ecologist, took up Julian Simon, a cornucopian economist, on a bet. ... http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/02/18/the-simonehrlich-bet/ Best quote from the video: "We spend $150 billion a year on healthcare costs related to obesity." http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/02/16/jamie-olivers-ted-talk/ This is a great parody of CNBC: http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/02/12/parody-of-cnbc/ As I have written before I'm on the board of Moishe House foundation. The New York Times just profiled them in a wonderful write-up. Here is a snippet: REBECCA KARP, Brian Cohen, Danielle Hardoon and Alissa Worly, all of whom are in their 20s, share a spacious red-brick house in Philadelphia. ... http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/02/11/moishe-house-in-the-ny-times/ I'm quickly becoming a huge fan of Hugh Hendry. http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/02/10/hugh-hendry-on-greece-and-the-euro/ From 1940 to 1980, the average holding period that investors held on to stocks was as high as 10 years to as low as 4 years. Then in the 1980s, the holding period started to fall to as low as 1.5 years in the late 1980s, before a brief bounce ... http://blog.aaronedelheit.com/2010/02/09/investor-add/