The Economics of Dog Squeeze
I thought we’d talk about something a bit different today. Dog sh*t. And we’re going to approach it from an academic perspective, considering both the economic and legal issues. I’m not sure what it...
I thought we’d talk about something a bit different today. Dog sh*t. And we’re going to approach it from an academic perspective, considering both the economic and legal issues. I’m not sure what it...
It’s Monday morning and I dialed up the weekly podcast of a financial advisor that I’ve been listening to for 10-plus years . . . for so long in fact that I initially...
In the last twelve months GE has shed roughly $140 billion in market capitalization—that’s approximately 2x the market capitalization lost in the Enron debacle, and more than the market-cap losses resulting from the Lehman...
I have been reading a lot of Nassim Taleb’s writing lately. I recall that he garnered a lot of attention with his book The Black Swan back in 2007, but I was too busy...
I’ll bet you already guessed the answer to this question, but let’s explore it. Just for fun. In a recent podcast episode of Radical Personal Finance, Joshua Sheets advanced the idea that many FI/ER...
We recently returned home from eight days spent traveling through Maine and Massachusetts (the reason for the missing posts from the last two weeks). We had not planned this trip until about three days...
As a society are we losing the ability to think conceptually—that is, in the abstract and through the application of a consistent principle to multiple and varied fact sets—as opposed to specifically and by...
One of my primary objectives for this blog is to assist in the enlightenment of people at all income levels—but especially at high income levels—that they can pursue a different financial-life path. One that...
I have been accused at times of worrying too much about money. And my retort is always the same: I do’t worry about money at all. But I do spend time carefully managing it,...
It’s late summer 1996 and I’m playing pool with some college buddies that are also home for the summer break. We’re all about 21 years old, and very comfortable in our upper-middle-class lifestyle fueled...
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