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The New Boss ...
Elon Musk is, without doubt, one of the most controversial figures of our time. He is an ambitious, self-made visionary who spends most of his waking…
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Conventional Wisdom in the Financial Markets
Everyone has a movie or two that nearly the whole world has seen, but they haven’t. For Bagholder, one of those movies was The Matrix. He saw no need to…
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Image v. Results
What Bobby Knight's passing can teach us about the 2024 presidential election
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A Tale of Two Kings ...
All shook up…. Ask any 30-something where they were and what they were doing on 9-11 when the towers came down. Bag would wager even the ones who were…
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We Don't Need No Education
We don’t need no Thought Control… One of Bag’s more vivid mid-1970s childhood memories was periodically “going to work” for the day with Dad (who was a…
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Federal Racketeering
In the second season of the Sopranos, there is a story arc with a sporting goods store owner named David Scatino, who owes more money than he can pay to…
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The Golden Age of Fraud
Bag was just a young pup in the mid-1970s when under the tree one Christmas morning did appear a heavy package addressed to Bag’s entire family. Us kids…
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Sympathetic Ears...
Covid amnesty …they say…. Let’s all forgive & forget….they say… Quoting Emily Oster, writer for the Atlantic : “We need to forgive one another for what…
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The power of FOMO
One lovely summer afternoon in the 1970s - back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth - Bag was dragged to the local K-mart by his mother for an…
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Golf and the Birth of Skepticism
My grandfather called me up one summer day when I was ten years old and said he was picking me up in the morning and teaching me how to play golf. The…
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School Choice
When you get right down to it, there are only a handful of decisions in life that really matter. Who to marry, where to live, what job to take, number…
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Vegas, the WSOP, and the Cooler
Bagholder has always had a Love/Hate relationship with Las Vegas, the modern-day Mecca of Gambling & Debauchery. Originally built by gangsters, the…
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