Malkiel

I chose the screen name "Malkiel" as a sideways tribute to Burton Malkiel's beloved "Random Walk Down Wall Street". The book had been out forever and I found to my embarassment a couple of years ago that Mr. Malkiel was not only still alive and well, but young and chipper. I offered him some apologies for appropriating his name while commenting on an article of his which appeared in SA a couple of years ago (no response, so we are perhaps forgiven). This year I found to my surprise that I now have more "followers" than people I'm "following" (a scary moment which makes one start looking over the shoulder to see who's watching) and I didn't want any of them to do so thinking they ...More might be reading the actual web musings of the esteemed Burton Malkiel. It is, alas, just a pretender...