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Research
Stocks for the Long Run? [Paper Summary]
Conventional wisdom is that stocks are a safe investment over long holding periods, with long-term loss realizations in the U.S. being rare …
The Origin of Wealth Book Summary (Or, An Introduction to Complexity Economics)
Buy The Origin of Wealth Book Editorial Note: The majority of this post is copied and pasted directly from The Origin of Wealth. It got …
Insurance Makes Wealth Grow Faster
The traditional view of insurance is that it is a “win-lose” proposition. There are three reasons that insurance would …
The Best Strategies for Inflationary Times (Paper Review)
- HENRY NEVILLE, TEUN DRAAISMA, BEN FUNNELL, CAMPBELL R. HARVEY, and OTTO VAN HEMERT1 As talk of inflation is all the rage these days, …
Diversifying Diversification: Downside Risk Management with Portfolios of Insurance Securities (Paper Review)
- Vineer Bhansali Diversification is the most important topic in investing. (Illustrations such as The Farmer’s Fable are really …
The Maginot Line Problem
The Maginot Line was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapons built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by …
Beware The White Moose
There are certain books that hit you at just the right time and became a big part of how you see the world. For me, one of those books is …
Nuclear Winterizing your Investments? Meet The Cockroach Portfolio
Why do we invest? How do we protect our wealth and our family's future amidst an unknown and chaotic world? For the past decade, we’ve …