RE: my recent email about starting an underground school newsletter. To recap, back in ye olde high school days, me and a bunch of friends started an underground newsletter, called The Jester’s Court, to compete with the official school newsletter. Looking back on it… it LOOKS like we were “fighting the power” but really… we […]
Archives for November 2017
Pretty fly for a white lie
Fire up your favorite search engine and search for “index funds”. You’ll hardly hear anything bad about them. All the experts agree: passive investing is better than active investing. This is not only stoopid but, on some level, I have to believe the professionals are being intellectually dishonest about promoting this idea. Passive investing is […]
The mark of the financial beast
Last night, my wife found some old “I Love Lucy” episodes, so we watched a few. In one episode, Lucy studies numerology and helps Ricky scam a potential employer by doing a seance to contact the dood’s dead wife and dog. Got me thinking about yesterday’s email and how maybe… some people misinterpreted what I […]
Why most investors are marks
Back when I weighed one-hundred and wet sponge pounds, I ran 3 miles, 3 times per week. All that running made me tired, but not stronger. One day, I decided I wanted to be stronger so… I went to a local gym. But… Found a bunch of people in said gym running on a treadmill […]
System of a drawdown
My wife and I don’t usually get to have lunch together. She’s a busy bee, doing all kinds of crazy things in the lab (she’s a molecular biologist). But, recently, the opportnity came up so we both jumped on it. Went and got ourselves some good food truck nom noms. Didn’t realize this until after […]