The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

Asset managers have different approaches, and I don't wish to suggest there is only one way to run money. There are many ways one can attempt to reduce risk, improve performance, lower drawdowns and reduce volatility.

There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.