When the rumors of a Willis sale first emerged two years ago, I speculated that Aon might not be the only option. Since it’s been so long since that first post, I thought I’d re-share that post below with a little bit of additional commentary. First, when I suggested Gallagher Continue Reading
Do ESG Funds Actually Hold ESG Stocks?
I’ve written plenty about ESG before. As a reminder, or for those newer to the blog, my stance on ESG investing is that it manipulates people who truly care about ESG goals by selling them products that don’t address what they actually care about so that fund managers can make Continue Reading
The Solution to College Affordability: Free Markets
There were two recent news stories about college affordability that caught my eye. These weren’t your typical stories about marginal students who maybe shouldn’t have gone to college at all but got roped into taking out a lot of debt to enroll and later dropped out and were stuck with Continue Reading
How Moneyball Ruined Baseball
I haven’t written about sports for a little while, so let’s do something a little different for this post holiday week. As I’ve discussed in the past, there is a lot of overlap between trends in sports and markets, particularly around analytics. While baseball made analytics mainstream through Moneyball, I Continue Reading