Informed Tip of the Week: Important paper here about some of the underlying problems with home insurance coverage that Informed is working on fixing. Does a good job explaining a lot of the core issues such as disappearing roof coverage and the need for better information along with the obstacles Continue Reading
How the Transfer Portal Will Soon Break College Football (And NFL Playoff Predictions)
Editor’s Note: Slight change in format for the new year. I’ll now be including links to Informed content with each post. Hopefully, this serves as incentive for me to write a little more and hopefully you, gentle reader, will click and learn something you didn’t know about your home insurance. Continue Reading
The First Annual Predictions Column
So there are basically two kinds of stories you can do to start a year – resolutions or predictions. And I think resolutions are a mental crutch, so predictions it is! Note, I’m not promising a second set of predictions next year. I only said these are the first. Let’s 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
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
A Plan to Safely Start the NBA on May 1
Yes, we have bigger problems in this country than whether the NBA returns or not this season. However, as I was thinking of test cases to re-open the economy, the NBA actually would be one of the easiest ones to execute with the added bonus of providing some much needed Continue Reading
Mattress Mack Is Ready for the Super Bowl!
Sorry, I don’t think I have permission to call it the S**** B***. I mean the “Big Game”! Don’t want to get a cease and desist from Roger Goodell! Iansbnr’s favorite reckless gambler Mattress Mack, fresh off his disastrous World Series’ bets on the Astros, is now seeking some NFL Continue Reading
Ian’s Brief #2: The Insurance Haunted House, Underreserved Wildebeests, Mattress Mack, and More
Some may recall the first edition of the Brief where I followed up on some prior topics along with some new thoughts not long enough to make a full post. For Halloween and to keep things light during earnings, I am back with Brief #2. The Insurance Haunted House Nothing Continue Reading
Five Suggestions to Improve the NBA
Since a) it’s earnings week and b) the NBA just started back up, I thought it was time for a lighter topic. I have five out of the box ideas to improve the product. If anyone reading this has Adam Silver or Michele Roberts’ email or can DM them on Continue Reading
Ian’s Brief, New & Revisited
I’m starting a new occasional feature to revisit some past posts and drop some interesting brief asides too short for a full entry. So here we go… Passive Investing Passes a Milestone I’ve discussed before the impact passive investing has had on the behavior of markets. Well, congratulations, passive fans, Continue Reading