EPISODE 3: PAPER GAINS iTunes–Episode 003: Paper Gains Show notes: Farnam Street: Smarter, Not Harder MarketWatch: Day trader tries out ‘demo’ platform, ends up with actual $5 billion position WSJ: GE Drops Out of the Dow After More Than a Century Nick Maggiulli Tweet Storm Of Dollars And Data: The Evil Hours Kali Roberge: Retired Early Tweet Read more about Reversion To The Mean — Episode 3: Paper Gains[…]
Retirement is a fairly new concept. The Social Security Administration was created only 83 years ago in 1935. The first pension in the US was started by American Express in 1875, but the pension system that we know today didn’t take off until after World War II. Prior to modern day retirement, people worked until Read more about What is Retirement?[…]
I am excited to share that the homie Justin Castelli and I have started a podcast to distill what has been shared on FinTwit (Financial Twitter) for the week, and have some fun in the process. We plan on sharing the articles and tweets that we feel are important to discuss, and also call out Read more about Reversion To The Mean — A New Podcast[…]
Currently, in the year 2018, pension plans are almost extinct for those outside of public service. Our parents and grandparents may have put in 40 plus years at the same employer, to be rewarded with a fat pension at retirement. Nowadays this is extremely rare. There are few pension plans to keep us millennials loyal Read more about Negotiating a Job Offer[…]
Networking has such an icky feeling to it. You have to socialize with strangers in order to make connections to sell your product or services, or hope they offer you a job if you happen to need one in the future. The first time I ever profited from my network I was 15 years old. Read more about Network, Network, Network[…]
To this day, I am still sticking to the same, simple financial plan that I set up in my mid-twenties. It is an extremely simple financial plan. For 99% of the population, financial plans don’t have to be complex. A financial plan doesn’t even have to be longer than a sentence: Nicole saves 20% of her Read more about Ignore the Noise[…]