David Dixon Lentz

Efficient Market Hypothesis versus Stock Picking

Posted onMay 29, 2017July 29, 2021Leave a comment

A discussion of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. Generally speaking, many (perhaps most) respected academics believe that the stock market and the direction of individual stock prices is so difficult to predict that unless one has (often illegal) insider information, that the most educated and skilled investor cannot beat the returns that an amateur rookie would receive on his investments if the amateur randomly selected stocks knowing nothing at all. Read More …

INVESTING: BOND VALUATION

Posted onMay 28, 2017July 29, 2021Leave a comment

Bond Valuation video for all of you bond investors out there. This explains how the price/value of bonds is calculated by the pros and gives some insight into where the risks are. Read More …

Check Out or New Interest Rate and Money Supply Video

Posted onMay 25, 2017May 25, 2017Leave a comment

Again we incorporated our new video editing software…fingers crossed. We also put in some slides to help those who can’t see or follow the original so well learn about how interest rates are affected by the Fed’s monetary policy. Jobs, GDP and inflation are also discussed. Thanks for sticking with us. DDL

Video Editor Working

Posted onMay 23, 2017May 23, 2017Leave a comment

Please forgive us for being gone so long. We’ll spare you the sob story. Check out our updated, and we think (fingers crossed) improved video on free trade. Thanks for your patience ! DDL

We Are Still Alive

Posted onApril 21, 2017Leave a comment

Yes, we are still here. Alive and kicking. We apologize for being less than active, but we have been trying to find ways to improve our videos and it has been more of an adventure than we anticipated. We expect to be more active in May. Thanks for your patience.

IS FREE TRADE A GOOD THING?

Posted onApril 6, 2017July 29, 2021Leave a comment

The genesis of free trade theory in many ways starts with the man many consider to be the Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith. He addressed the issue several hundred years ago in his famous book “The Wealth of Nations”. There he showed how two countries specializing in producing and trading goods in which they have Read More …

Big Adventure 3: Run Diet 3

Posted onMarch 27, 2017March 28, 2017Leave a comment

Click here to see the video. Training for a Marathon. Training Schedule. Diet Tips. Running. 62 year old does 64 pushups. By David Lentz for Reasonandbalance.com. Okay as promised here is what worked for me when I completed the marathon. My strategy of late has been to get to my running weight with my weight Read More …

Episode 2: The Big Adventure

Posted onMarch 23, 2017April 27, 2018Leave a comment

Here’s the 6 day per week running schedule (mentioned in the video below) we are trying with 6 weeks to go before the marathon. We are trying to limit calories to 3000 per day because of the blown diet after successfully losing 46 lbs in 4 months. We are running 6 days per week Read More …

Current Issues and Rao’s Solution: A Defense

Posted onMarch 21, 2017April 27, 2018Leave a comment

Recently I received some insightful comments on my novel, Rao’s Solution. I always appreciate well-intended objective comments on my work. I thought I would share parts of my response because it really goes to the whole purpose of the book. [As you will see I didn’t pay close attention to the rules of punctuation.] *** Read More …

The Big Adventure 62 year old Marathon Quest

Posted onMarch 16, 2017March 24, 2017Leave a comment

Six weeks to go. Fifteen pounds overweight, Coming off a slight hamstring pull….again. Can our 62 year old hero finish a 26.2 mile marathon on May 7th? Las Vegas laughs…but you gotta admit…the old boy’s got spunk. He does have a few good diet tips though. After all. It’s not easy losing 65 pounds Read More …