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In Defense of Greedy Billionaires

Posted On May 1, 2025May 1, 2025 By Ian3 Comments

Yup, you read it right. I’m here to defend billionaires. And not just and greedy billionaires, but the worst of the worst! Sports team owners! Boooooo!!!! What’s the issue? People are mad that the Washington Commanders are building a new stadium and the city of DC is paying for part Continue Reading

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Markets Hate Uncertainty

Posted On March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 By Ian1 Comment

I thought this might be a good time for a brief primer on the likely consequences of the ever evolving US economic policy. One of the first things you learn as an investor is markets hate uncertainty. This is basically a way of stating that people are risk averse so Continue Reading

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The Dual Danger In Carry Trades

Posted On August 21, 2024August 21, 2024 By Ian

You’ve probably read a lot in the news recently about carry trades. Many of you may not fully understand what they are or why they matter. I’ll try to help explain that, but I also want to go beyond that and delve into how central banks enable these carry trades Continue Reading

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Why Trump Sneakers Are The New Bitcoin

Posted On February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 By Ian

I’m sure most of you have seen the story of Trump selling $400 gold sneakers. Many probably rolled their eyes or took the clickbait and read the news stories or even went to the website (I won’t link it, sorry) to see if it was true. I had a different Continue Reading

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How Prisoner’s Dilemma Made ILS and Streaming TV Worse

Posted On September 28, 2023September 28, 2023 By Ian

Innovations are supposed to make things better, but sometimes, they, inadvertently, make things worse. How so? Because they can create some bad game theory incentives. Companies feel pressured to do something that is a positive if only they do it, but, once everyone copies it, results in a lower equilibrium. Continue Reading

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Bankrupting Bank Shareholders Is Bad For America

Posted On March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 By Ian3 Comments

Editor’s Note: Before we get into the big topic, some of you may be expecting my NCAA picks. Unfortunately, I have no time for that right now, but I will share with you my old guide on that for reference as well as the link to the public pick’s you Continue Reading

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Grading My 2022 Predictions: Pretty Good!

Posted On December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 By Ian1 Comment

At the beginning of the year, I did a silly thing. I made a bunch of predictions for the year. This blog has a pretty strong record of predictions over the years, but I had never fallen for the nonsense of making topical annual predictions…until this year. Now, the thing Continue Reading

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Will the End of Covid Be Good for the Economy?

Posted On November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 By Ian

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

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The Worst Investment in South America

Posted On August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 By Ian

I got sidetracked from my best and worst investment series by the GE saga. FYI, I updated the post with some better LTC data and showed the cherry picking was even worse than I thought! Anyway, today we will talk about the fools who bought 100-year debt from Argentina. Argentina Continue Reading

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