The data doesn’t support my priors.
May 2019
Should I Invest in Life Insurance?
Is life insurance a viable investment vehicle?
Animal Spirits: The Podcast Power Law
On today’s show we talk about who listens to podcast, children moving back home, and my favorite book of 2019
Where Does My Money Go?
Where does my money go every month? I broke down my spending into several different buckets, fixed, variable, and subscriptions.
Talk Your Book: Help With Your Down Payment From Unison
On today’s show, Ben and I talk with Brodie Gay of Unison, a company that helps home owners with come up with a down payment.
These Are the Goods
Articles The danger of such a signal was that we had discovered it by accident By Corey Hoffstein One component of return swamped all others in predicting returns: whether the total supply of shares was contracting or expanding. By Jason Zweig Paying too much attention costs more than just your time By Daniel Egan If…
What I Learned from Doing a Financial Plan
I have never had a financial plan built for me, which is somewhat embarrassing, even hypocritical. I have said numerous times that investing has to be tied to your goals, so I suppose it’s fair to say I was paying lip service to this idea. So why didn’t I practice what I was preaching? I…
Animal Spirits: The Absence of Stuff
Ben and I talk about Michael Lewis’s bad take, Goldman’s new advisors, spending versus saving, and buying whole life insurance as a 23-year old.
The Best Kind of Learning
Forget about long book lists. You have to build your own curriculum.
Talk Your Book: Jeremy Schwartz from WisdomTree
We talk with Jeremy Schwartz about dividend growth strategies, currency hedging, and the ETF that got its start on Twitter