Posted by: Lance on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Good Morning everybody, Dale and McQ have kindly invited me to post on what has to be considered my first love of the blog world, QandO. This probably shows that they are unwise, but given the infrequency of my posting over the past few months, and absence from the comment sections here, where I once spent so much time, I expect the regrets may be few. Lucky for all of you I suppose.
For those who are not familiar with me, my name is Lance Paddock. Myself, Michael, and a former denizen of QandO's comment section, The Poet Omar, started a little blog known as A Secondhand Conjecture three years ago almost to the day. I'll still be posting there, but I cannot express how much it means to be able to set up shop here as well. Jon, Dale and McQ have been great supporters, sources of advice, and frankly, sanity in a rather insane blogosphere. Having never met them in person, I can honestly call them friends. I have great respect for the other writers here as well, even Michael. I am married, have four kids, the oldest a senior at Vanderbilt, the youngest a nine year old girl. Two cats and a puppy live with me. My academic background is history, professional occupation is in the investment world. I suspect, because right now it takes up most of my time, that I will mostly be posting on economic and finance topics for now. No investment advice however, for that you have to visit my own blog on that topic, Risk and Return. I will say that I have been, and remain, gloomier about the economy than many. It has been said that great investors maintain what Galbraith called "a durable sense of doom." I don't know about being a great investor, but the sense of how awry many things had gotten has served me well. So far our accredited discretionary accounts are up since the top of the market. For the sake of many I hope my pessimism comes back to haunt me, it isn't always fun "dancing on gravestones," but I don't think so. Still, we will probably muddle through, and hopefully you will be kind as I try and do the same here. |
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