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Tag Archives: Manny Pacquiao
Pacquiao’s 16th Jinx and His Biggest Battleground
You can call me unpatriotic, superstitious or a crackpot, but I strongly felt the certainty of Manny Pacquiao’s loss to Timothy Bradley after I read chronicler Marv Dumon’s revelation of Pacquiao’s “16th jinx,” as mentioned in Recah Trinidad’s PDI 04-12-12 article and in which I, in turn, quoted in my previous post entitled “The Bull-Bear Connection – An Unsolicited Advice to the Black Swan Manny Pacquiao“.
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Tagged "The Art of Speculation", "The Bull-Bear Connection - An Unsolicited Advice to the Black Swan Manny Pacquiao", Bob Arum, Jack Dempsey, James Tunney, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Marv Dumon, Pacquiao's 16th Jinx, Philip Carret, the biggest battleground, Timothy Bradley
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The Bull-Bear Connection – An Unsolicited Advice to the Black Swan Manny Pacquiao
There’s a strange connection between the stock market and boxing success.
In the stock market there are bulls and bears; in the realm of boxing or pugilism, there also are bulls and bears. The bulls are those times when a boxer keeps on winning and if ever he loses, he quickly regains the winning touch. The bears come when the boxer loses and appears to have lost the winning touch.
How Sports Betting or Gambling Can Get Close to an Investment
With the controversial Manny Pacquaio win in last Sundays (or Saturday in the West) bout with his nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez still the subject of much debate, it may help to make a few jabs at the issue of sports betting and how close it can get to investment.
Is Gambling a Sort of Investment and Investment a Sort of Gambling
Barely two months ago in November 2010, there were lots of sound and fury over the huge and continually mounting prize pot of lotto in the Philippines. The hype was building up by the day as the grand lotto prize crossed the half-billion peso mark. I wanted to write about it then but unfortunately, there were higher things in my pecking order. Now I think the time has come to say something about this issue of gambling: whether gambling can be considered investment of sorts. Or whether investment can be considered gambling.
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Tagged adequate return, Albanian episode, Benjamin Graham, Manny Pacquiao, One Up on Wall Street, Peter Lynch, Ponzi-like bubble, protection of principal, risking of money or valuables on the outcome of a game, Security Analysis, The Curse of the Pyramids, value investing
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The Black Swan That is Pacquiao and What Lesson Can Be Learned
For this post, we use the concept of the Black Swan as elucidated by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his bestselling book, The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The aim is to see what insight or lesson we can pick up from the extraordinary rise of this erstwhile ordinary man that is Pacquiao. Continue reading