People often ask me: “What’s the point of owning bonds with interest rates so low?” I’ve heard this question for most of my career and while the risk profile of [ … ]
Everything You Need to Know About Inflation
Inflation is all the rage these days and it’s pretty much all I’ve been talking about lately. Here are some good resources I’ve produced in the last few weeks on [ … ]
The US Stock Market is Not as Exceptional as We’ve Been Told
One of the interesting things about going through the process of building an asset management company is that you can get bogged down in the regulatory weeds about the meaning [ … ]
Three Things I Think I Think – Some Weekend Thinking
Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1) The One Income Family is Never Coming Back. Here’s Blake Masters running on a platform for Arizona Senate that [ … ]
Is Hyperinflation Coming?
Twitter lit up over the weekend when Jack Dorsey said that hyperinflation is coming. Dorsey is a very vocal advocate of Bitcoin and of course, also the CEO of two [ … ]
Get The Fed (and Government) Out of the Stock Market
The Federal Reserve has announced a sweeping set of strict rules to prohibit its employees from owning individual stocks, holding investments in individual bonds, holding investments in agency securities, or [ … ]
Did Bitcoin Kill Gold’s Monetary Utility?
I’ve always loved Harry Browne’s Permanent Portfolio. The concept is so simple and clean – own equivalent ratios of assets that protect you in an “all weather” fashion: 25% stocks [ … ]
R.I.P. – The Money Multiplier
Well, it took me 10 years to kill it, but I finally did it. I killed the money multiplier. I kid of course. I didn’t do it on my own.¹ [ … ]
Three Things I Think I Think – Long-Term Trends
Here are some things I think I am thinking about: 1) Stocks are more like bonds than we want to admit. Eddy Elfenbein had a great post titled “What if [ … ]