Jim Leff's Slog

I'm replaying this posting from April, 2021 99% of investors have no idea what the bet is that they're making. It's shocking....

I'm spending very little here in the land of 12€ lunches, 30€ doctor visits, 200€/month health insurance payments, 50€/month condo fees,...

If you evade the commands of a control freak, they'll see you as trying to control them . Similarly, egomaniacs view assertion as chal...

Political extremists often criticize moderates for being dull and boring. My experience is the opposite. Every progressive and every MAGA...

Portugal is a country of charming, acceptable sloppiness where there is no patience whatsoever for YOUR sloppiness because everyone's en...

I'm finally reaching a point of clarity after 40 years of avid chowhounding — tens of thousands of restaurant meals in two dozen count...

I was suggesting local restaurants to a Portuguese friend. Suddenly, he had an idea to bounce off of me. "Isn't it a shame there...

Like most anti-MAGAs (i.e. those to the left of, say, Mussolini), it’s been deeply engrained in me that Republican gerrymandering in Texas d...

Even after a solid decade spent with our faces firmly planted in the thoroughly miserable psychological taint of a prodigiously wealthy and ...

Two things severely suppress intelligence: arrogance and ambition. Intelligence flows freely through dilation, while arrogance and ego are...