Editor’s Note: This is a slightly modified version of some new content for the Informed site (you should really subscribe there too), but given the holiday nature of the topic, I thought it would also be a good year end post for the blog as well. What’s worse than leaving Continue Reading
How The Era of Free Money Ends…Badly
I don’t think most people understand just how extraordinary a financial moment we’ve been living in for the past dozen or so years. We’ve all become so numb to the Fed printing money that we get distracted by more urgent matters like the latest election or the job growth number Continue Reading
People Who Deserve Thanks This Year
For those of you wishing for a return to regular content, here you are, though I will put in one more reminder to check the Get Informed site for regular updates and follow us on LinkedIn for company news. And if you already visited, but didn’t follow up with any Continue Reading
Get Informed: Now Showing At A Screen Near You!
Editor’s note: If you didn’t read the last post, you might want to check that out first. Also, you can follow our company page on LinkedIn for future updates. I have some big news to share today! We have released our first version of the Informed website (if you’re thinking, Continue Reading
Informed Insurance: The First InsureTeach
If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been working on for the past six months – and why there have been less frequent posts here – I’ll be able to show you pretty much any day now. But first, I wanted to explain what we are looking to accomplish because we’re Continue Reading
Will the End of Covid Be Good for the Economy?
Editor’s note: I’ll have an update on what is going on at Informed later in the month. As Evan Greenberg likes to say….stay tuned! Editors’s note #2: Yes, I know LMND bought MILE last night, but this note was already written. We’ll get to that news some other time. For Continue Reading
The Pending Decline of Usage Based Insurance Pricing
How’s that for a provocative topic? Yes, just as usage based auto pricing has become mainstream, it has already peaked and nobody has realized it yet. Think of it like the Time magazine effect. When everybody recognizes the trend, it’s time to “sell the news”. Now, at the risk of Continue Reading
Mattress Mack Learns His Lesson
One of the Blog’s favorite people is Houston furniture maven, Mattress Mack whose reckless gambling to “hedge” his free furniture promotions provided some good content for me in the past. In fact, Mack is popular with more than just me. The Astros invited him to throw out the first pitch Continue Reading
Recurring Transitory Inflation and Personal Lines Profitability
With Fed Chair Powell changing his tune about “transitory” inflation, I thought it would be worthwhile to begin a deep dive on the challenges inflation brings to insurers because there appears to be a lot of false confidence out there. I guess that makes insurance companies more like the Fed Continue Reading
Did China Ring The Bell on the Market?
With all the Evergrande worries in the market last week, I thought it would be worth bringing some perspective to how major bear markets work and why Evergrande is unlikely to be the start of one. Note, this doesn’t mean I’m not bearish on the impact of Chinese policy on Continue Reading