Traders' Roundtable

Or for a lighter read altogether, Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full"!

Yes I was going to mention "A Man in Full" but you beat me too it. Really an excellent read.

Re translations of Epictetus: these are a bit of an issue. I actually like Sharon Lebell's "adaptation" which takes some translation ...

Ayn Rand, was my "epictetus".

Yes you bet, Rand writes a great book, and I think the roots of many libertarian thoughts can be traced back to the Stoics, particularly as they relate to personal freedom.

But I'll take the source any day, and I rely on my Epictetus in times of stress as a reliable ...

Laughing at telling people you're a pedophile... I can relate to the situation.

At dinner parties or whatever I usually just say I am interested in personal freedom and that is the last honest profession that I could find that allows me the greatest amount of freedom. This usually causes them to ...