AI
The world is ablaze with talk and speculation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), with untold billions of dollars poured into AI…
Tariffs
The SPX just had its worst week since 2020. You know, the year where everything shut down. Because of tariffs…
March 16th, 2025: Weekend video binge – Sequence of Returns Risk
Ben Felix, an actual financial advisor, is out with a video about sequence of returns risk, a topic that we…
SPY vs VOO
SPY is the first S&P500 ETF ever listed, and because of that first mover advantage, it has amassed a large…
January 19th, 2025: Weekend Video Binge – Monetary policy, fiscal policy and central banks
Richard Koo, celebrated economist who has worked in the Federal Reserve and is now chief economist at Nomura Research Institute,…
The RSU Sleight of Hand
Nowadays, many tech companies compensate their employees with restricted stock units (RSUs), effectively stock grants that vest over time. In…
December 27th, 2024: Weekend Video Binge
Adam Taggart is out with a fantastic interview with Graham Weaver — professional PE fund manager, Stanford professor and blogger/youtuber.
Alpha
Everyone in finance seems to be chasing alpha, but very few people seem to really understand what it is. What…
November 22nd, 2024: Weekend Video Binge
Adam Taggart is out with a fantastic interview with Grant Williams.
Politinomics
The country has decided — Trump is the next president of the United States of America. What does that mean…
War
The world is in a bad place today — war rages on continental Europe, a phenomenon that hasn’t occurred for…
Inflations
For as long as I can remember, inflation measures have been criticized as being inaccurate, biased towards the current political…
Green Transition
The Green Transition is the new name given to the idea that human activities are affecting the natural environment negatively,…
June 15th, 2024: Weekend Video Binge
Patrick Boyle is out with another great video looking at what the modern financial system has become.
December 13th, 2023: Dove
PPI came in slightly below expectations, and the Fed goes full dove.
December 12th, 2023: Rabbit’s foot
CPI came in hotter than expected, the exact opposite of what I’ve expected yesterday, yet stocks are up, and my…
December 11th, 2023: The Final Countdown
In just a few more hours, we’ll get the latest and final CPI print for 2023, followed 24 hours later…
Long Term Compounder
Everyone is out to find the next long term compounder — a company with such a strong business model that…
November 5, 2023: Ho ho ho!
The end of the year is upon us, and as with most years, it appears that the Santa Rally is…
October 25, 2023: Earnings season
It’s earnings season again, and if you’ve read Making moves, you should know that I’m short the market since around…
September 17, 2023: Weekend video binge – Patrick Boyle, Zeke Faux
If you’ve been reading my writing for a while, you’ll probably know that I am a big fan of Patrick…
Growth vs Dividends
How should we evaluate a company that pays $10 in dividends a year, every year, vs a company that pays…
Business returns
We’ve discuss the capital stack of a company before — basically how the company funds its initial creation and ongoing…
August 8, 2023: Making moves
It’s early August, just one month away from the seasonally weakest month of the year for stocks, September. Time to…
July 15, 2023: Weekend video binge – Michael Cembalest
One of the other JB’s had an interview with the Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy of JPMorgan, Michael Cembalest,…
Hedging
While hedging is mentioned in finance a lot, it is, surprisingly, not very well defined. Despite its frequent use in…
June 25, 2023: Weekend video binge 2 – Economics fact check
Anyone who talks to me about finance/economics, will know very quickly that I’m a stickler for definitions. It’s really annoying…
June 24, 2023: Weekend video binge – Step-by-step fundamental analysis
Richard over at The Plain Bagel made an excellent video about how to do fundamental analysis on a stock. Highly…
June 13, 2023: Inflation – wrap up
Almost exactly 2 years ago, I made a post about inflation at the time, with some guesses on what will…
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