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In this excellent review of James Montier's book — Behavioral Investing: A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Behavioral Finance, Bruce Grantier summarises the main points of the book with emphasis on mistakes and biases followed by a discussion of number of behavioral phenomena.

Not exact matches

As Claire Fallon, the Huffington Post's books and culture writer, points out, there are plenty of other reasons why ebooks may never catch on with a larger crowd.

«It's subtle — you can't point your finger at this,» Rosalind Barnett of Brandeis University, who is co-author of the book with Caryl Rivers, told Fast Company.

«One friendly but sharp - eyed commentator on Berkshire has pointed out that our book value at the end of 1964 would have bought about one - half ounce of gold and, 15 years later, after we have plowed back all earnings along with much blood, sweat and tears, the book value produced will buy about the same half ounce.

If people repeatedly come to you with requests in areas where you don't feel adequately qualified to help, having a few stock resources, such as books or articles, to point them to can ease the pain of saying no, Grant suggests.

«I was given this book at the beginning of my manager journey, and the main point is that you're only as good as the team you surround yourself with.

They can also integrate things like parking, popcorn and drinks with your purchase so that users can book an entire experience rather than having several different touch points for each of these that increases the friction in the user experience.»

I was tired of books with stories about generals, parables about mice, and endless scientific studies with numbers that could point any which way.

With millions of copies sold on Amazon alone, it seems folks gladly took a break from their ball - point pens and to - do lists for a set of colored pencils and an «age - appropriate» coloring book.

To fully appreciate Pinker's book, you'll need to spend a considerable amount of time with it, but here's a breakdown of its main points.

The US version of the card has no foreign transaction fees and earns 5x points on flights booked directly with the airline and prepaid hotels booked through Amex Travel, on top of a welcome offer of 60,000 points when you spend $ 5,000 in the first three months.

Instead of earning points that you can use at only one airline or hotel, you can earn points that can be used to book through an award portal with no blackout dates, or you can transfer the points to a partner airline or hotel to book award reservations directly.

Points can be used to book travel at participating airlines or hotels with no blackout dates taking advantage of a fixed value per point.

Ultimate Rewards associated with a Sapphire Reserve has the same transferability as those earned with the Sapphire Preferred or the Ink Preferred, but when booking travel directly through the Ultimate Rewards Travel Portal, you'll net an increased value of each point.

And I think the example of that, which you point out in your book, is what's happened in terms of large corporations with stock dividends and buybacks.

Jeff tells us these, unfortunately, had to be booked with cash, since there is a severe lack of points properties in the Galapagos Islands.

The stock market, up sharply before the Beige Book release, continued to advance briskly, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average holding to a gain just north of 260 points on the day.

On top of that, you also have the ability to use the points to book hotel stays with brands such as Hilton and IHG.

Everything you earn under the 5x points category goes towards a single cap of $ 50k, while all gas station and nights booked directly with your hotel go towards a separate but still single cap of $ 50k.

But if you are the kind of person who dreams of business and first class travel, or someone who occasionally has to book an expensive flight with little advanced notice, then it might be worth it for you to play the travel rewards game with frequent flyer miles and hotel points.

These points and miles are less valuable when used for domestic flights in economy class, especially when travelers have the ability to book flights with plenty of advanced notice.

Converting the rewards you earn on your Chase Freedom Unlimited ® card to Ultimate Rewards ® points instead of cash back lets you access Chase's 25 % travel bonus by redeeming your points for travel or booking with partner reward systems like United MileagePlus ®.

Lauren lives in Chattanooga, with her husband, Scott Phillips, who is a portfolio manager of the Global Maximum Pessimism Fund and author of the investing book, Buying at the Point Maximum Pessimism: Six Value Investing Trends from China to Oil to Agriculture, 2010, FT Press, and co-author to the revised edition of The Templeton Touch, 2012, Templeton Press.

With triple and quintuple points on Wyndham bookings, its a good way to get 30 - 50 % more out of each stay.

Hal is here talking about the second case, that of what is called «free banking», and is right to point to George Selgin as a leading scholar in this field (here's a podcast I recorded with George a few years ago)-- his books are a must - read if you are serious about money.

You can transfer points for free and with no limit to your linked Starwood Preferred Guest account at a rate of 3:1, which means you can book all SPG - participating properties.

You can — as I pointed out earlier — see this very concept in the book of Revelations, where the Kingdom of Heaven arrives on earth with the New Jerusalem... Here.

Augustine — being concerned with his «ascent» (a word used repeatedly in Book X) from sin to salvation — is preoccupied with the relationship between memory and sin: he makes a point of noting that we are able to remember our sins without committing them over again.

= > no fiction book ever says that I pointed out the text analysis that person did to juxtapose it with the authenticity of the biblical narrative.

The opening scene is in Champion City, a metropolis in a slightly altered (but not enough to really work) comic book - style reality, where costumed crimefighters (many with mediocre «powers») are in oversupply, to the point that many of them are out looking for work.

The point of there being a book like that is to try to distract you with a bunch of other points the other wants to make to persuade you.

During the mashup of songs from Coloring Book, Chance, along with Kirk Franklin, employed a full gospel choir, at one point leading the crowd in a worshipful rendition of «How Great Is Our God.»

It is the 1st book of the Bible, Genesis, that gives us how long our Creator, Jehovah God, took in preparing the earth for human habitation (when it reached the proper point of preparation), a period of six «creative» days, with each «day» being several thousand years long.

If your point is to suggest that the acquisition of Thomas Nelson is not conincidental with the withdrawal of the book, I'm inclined to agree.

In the book, I make a brief but impassioned case for reading the text with the prejudice of love, a hermeneutic I believe was employed by Jesus, and, as many reviewers have pointed out, a hermeneutic that Augustine also favored.

In addition, it may be useful to point out that in his valuable book Understanding Whitehead, Victor Lowe states (UW50) that Whitehead's «conception of growth has points of similarity with Hegel's, but differs in having no use for «contradiction,» and in presenting a hierarchy of categories of feeling rather than a hierarchy of categories of thought.»

If you are a fundamentalist Christian, you will probably be offended at the humorous approach Steve Wells takes in his book, Drunk With Blood, by pointing out all the violence of Scripture, but I think that humor is the only way to write a 300 - page book detailing all the violence in the Christian Scriptures.

I was pointing out that the article makes it seem a lot worse than it is for effect along with a video of abuses nearly 30 years ago almost like an infomercial for books sales.

Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early in the book that he can only speak for the mainline denominations with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only speak for his observations of the churches / leaders with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.

The book of Isaiah misses the point with its mockery:

But now it has been published, and... and it turns out that while I agree with him on about 90 % of what he writes in the book, I disagree with him on the central point.

The name Didymus Judas Thomas may point towards Syria, where the Acts of Thomas originated, but the parallels with traditions and apocryphal books known to Clement and Origen suggest Alexandria instead.

Later when I was in Selly Oaks, I had a conversation with Prof. John Hicks of the University of Birmingham whose approach was that inter-religious relation should have God as the point of entry, as indicated in his book, God and the Universe of Faiths.

Those who point to God killing in the Book of Samuel and Nubmers need to check out how that society was riddled with $ exual disease because of their worship of Baal.

Jesus of the Gospel accounts was compatible with the classic confession of the true humanity o There my point was that the book's emphasis on the concrete historical - political humanity of the f Christ (i.e., the core meaning of «incarnation»), whereas those who deny that humanity (or its normative exemplarity) in favor of «some more spiritual» message are implicitly Docetic.

Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more with Hegel; and the author, though he does not seem to be acquainted with Hegel, is not wholly unaware of this, for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the work of «idealism,» «but from a realist point of view.»

Unless the discussion in the preceding pages has entirely failed to make its point, it will be plain that what is being proposed in this book is (as I have said) a «de-mythologizing» of the inherited notions of «life after death», with their (to many of us) impossible assertions; and also the «re-mythologizing» — or better, the re-conceiving — of their implicit intention so that we may have a valid way of affirming the value and worth of human existence, its significance and importance for God, and its preservation in God as a reality which has affected the divine life and in God has acquired an enduring quality which nothing can take away.

The constructive suggestions in Rosen's book are confined to the no - illness point of view, along with a plea for more research, which, of course, is needed.

Paul's point in putting it this way is not to give us a book of theological trump cards by which we can denounce as heretics all who disagree with us.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?