Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1. Do you need gold if it all comes crashing down? The Dutch Central Bank stated that we would need gold [ … ]

Here are some things I think I am thinking about on this beautiful Wednesday before the Washington Nationals defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers¹: 1) Should we ban billionaires? Bernie Sanders says [ … ]

I hate short-termism and anything that feeds on it (financial news, get rich quick schemes, etc). It is, in my opinion, one of the most destructive aspects of any financial [ … ]

This website is, to a large degree, about impeachment and impeaching bad ideas out of the worlds of finance and economics. So, here are some impeachable ideas I’ve been thinking [ … ]

Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1.2.3. The Great Repo “Crisis” of 2019. If you’ve opened the financial section of the newspaper in recent days then [ … ]

Vanguard released a new study showing that financial advice provides “meaningful” beneficial changes in behavior, performance and financial outcomes. They had previously published a study citing a 3% “advisor alpha”. [ … ]

We’ve seen a number of foreign debt based crises in the last few years with both Turkey and Argentina suffering from substantial episodes of inflation related to foreign denominated debts. [ … ]

Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1) Is there a bubble in passive investing? Michael Burry of Big Short fame, says there’s a bubble in passive investing. [ … ]