Bucks Blog: It's Time to Occupy Your Checkbook

NEW YORK – To mark the second anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement last month, an assortment of protests, marches and rallies were held, to support or oppose mostly predictable causes. At the same time, a far more surprising undertaking began with far less fanfare: creating a prepaid Occupy debit card.

Billionaire asset manager Howard Marks, the chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital, was on Bloomberg TV today talking about what it means to "be great" when it comes to investing. 

Echoing Charlie Munger, Oaktree's Howard Marks warns today's institutional and retail investors that "everything that’s important in investing is counterintuitive, and everything that’s obvious is wrong." These words seem critically important at a time when the world and his pet rabbit is a self-proclaimed stock-picking export.

J. Bradford DeLong U.C. Berkeley and NBER September 2013 :: University of Missouri--Columbia

A must read summary from Scotiabank's Guy Haselmann Summary of Current Situation

It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police.

If you're a hard-core shopper, you're not going to want to spend any time in the stores with people like Carl Richards, the artist-in-residence at the Bucks blog.