Category: White Paper
White Paper: How Much Risk Should You Take? A Better Approach.
When you hire a financial advisor, sign up for a 401(k) at work, or otherwise get started with a new investment plan, one of the...
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Singularity or Stagnation? Economic Growth in the 21st Century
Economic growth has been kind of weird lately. We’ve just lived through the greatest economic crash followed by the strongest recovery on record. US Real...
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Will Probably Collapse This Decade
It’s 2020! We’re officially living in the future! And if retro sci-fi stories are any guide, that means abundant, clean, cheap energy for everyone. In...
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Which is Better: Renting or Buying Your Home?
In my last post, I gave my two cents on the old investing debate of whether real estate or the stock market is the better...
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Which is the Better Investment: Stocks or Real Estate?
When we as financial advisors talk with investors about the virtues of diversification, asset allocation, and long-term investing, a question that often comes up is,...
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Profiting from the Recklessness of Others
A couple months ago, I wrote about the dangers of levered ETFs, showing how these products designed to juice investor’s returns end up eroding capital...
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The Line Between Aggressive and Crazy
Suppose I offer you a bet. Flip a coin, heads you lose your entire bet, tails you win it back plus one and a half...
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“Make it a Quadruple”
This month, the financial press has been abuzz with the latest case study in Wall Street’s storied history of feeding speculative frenzies: the quadruple-levered ETF....
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Culture, Investor Behavior, and the Market
Investors, being human, are not always perfectly rational, but sometimes make decisions that are influenced by their emotions or cognitive biases, which can effect market...
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Postmodern Finance Part 8: Peace, Love, Happiness, and Arbitrage
Imagine an alien race with no concept of money was observing the earth from afar, trying to understand us humans. What might they say about...
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