Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finance. Show all posts
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Review: Die with Zero

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 Die with Zero is an unusual financial planning book. It starts with the famous adage, "You can't take it wih you," and unlik...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Review: Narrative Economics

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 I'm a huge Robert Shiller fan, but somehow missed that he had a new book called Narrative Economics . When someone at work mentioned it...
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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Review: The Fund

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 The Fund is Rob Copeland's take down of Ray Dalio.  Ray Dalio is the founder/owner of Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund that purpor...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Review: Going Infinite

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 I read Going Infinite expecting some of the trademark incisiveness and insight that Michael Lewis had brought to his other books. To my su...
Friday, August 16, 2019

A Man for All Markets

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A Man for All Markets is Ed Thorp's autobiography. It's a great book about how Thorp went from being a mathematician to being the f...
Saturday, September 01, 2018

Travel Credit Cards Overview

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This time, we traveled with the Capital One Quicksilver and Amazon Prime credit cards for travel use. Both offer no-fee international tran...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Wealthfront's Customer Service

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Recently, someone pointed me to the wired article about the risk parity fund that Wealthfront introduced and asked me why I wasn't even...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Excellent Customer Service: 2 Great Examples

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Most of the time whenever I interact with customer service, I have my expectations set relatively low. From the "high call volume"...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Review: The Opposite of Spoiled

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I checked out The Opposite of Spoiled hoping for practical tips on how to teach children about money. I got more and less than what I barga...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Review: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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Being Mortal is Atul Gawande's book about end-of-life care. It discusses the history of end-of-life care, and how the current nursing h...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Review: How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big

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Authors are strange and irrational creatures. Ask any author with multiple books out which book they wrote they like the most, and they almo...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Review: The Flash Boys

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Books about Wall Street have a way of being incredibly depressing. For instance, Elizabeth Warren's story about fighting Wall Street ha...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Vanguard's Unique Corporate Structure

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One thing I've come to realize over and over again, is that very few people understand what makes Vanguard such a unique company. Some ...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

The Siren Song of Real Estate

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I'm constantly astounded by how frequently people tout real estate as a great investment. Take a look at this example from Quora, for i...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Exploitation

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Google, Intel and Apple are appealing Lucy Koh's rejection of their settlement about the anti-poaching case. It's very hard to get ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century is Thomas Piketty's magnum opus about the future of capitalism and the implications thereof. It is ...