In 2020, I learned about the macro economist Raoul Pal through a number of podcasts, and his pessimistic view of the global macro situation resonated…
The path less traveled.
In 2020, I learned about the macro economist Raoul Pal through a number of podcasts, and his pessimistic view of the global macro situation resonated…
This article discusses how to track crowd-sourced real estate investments in software like Quicken or iBank.
So much of the financial services industry’s value proposition resides on the premise that markets can be beaten. With the most talented managers, the best…
Summary — As a Bank of America customer who spends a lot of time outside the United States, I have struggled to confirm my transactions…
This article describes how I track and reconcile my LendingClub investments, using the iBank personal finance software. This method should be equally valid for people using Quicken.
Today I created a publicly-accessible Google Spreadsheet that calculates the performance of the Permanent Portfolio over a range of dates. As a proxy for the…
Get it on Amazon → The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis, is an amazing book about the banking crisis of 2008. Having watched the events unfold over the course of about a year, and not really understanding everything involved, the tragedy of situation wasn’t quite as impressive to me at the time, as it is having read Lewis’ concise, clear and compressed explanation of it. While I’d encourage everyone interested to read the book, I’m going to try to summarize the story here.
