From the monthly archives:
Does anybody happen to have any idea where I might be able to find up-to-date info regarding long-term gold returns? I’ve been searching online for a few days now and have had very little success. Something like an updated version of the data in Jeremy Siegel’s Stocks for the Long Run would be great. Best-case [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Plenty of good reading this week. Lots of people with some interesting thoughts on the economy (rather than rehashing the same arguements we’ve been hearing for months now). Economy Five Cent Nickel notes that all the foreclosures we’re hearing about aren’t as widespread as the media might have us think. It turns out they’re quite [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I find it telling that Leo from Zenhabits was able to gain tens of thousands of subscribers to his blog in less than a year. Yes, Leo is an excellent writer. But I suspect that a large part of his success was the result of him tapping into an already-existing, unsatisfied desire for a simpler [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
For whatever reason, there’s been a great deal of talk recently about some research done in the 1970s by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. It’s been discussed in Predictably Irrational and Nudge as well as in numerous articles/blog posts. In short, what Kahneman and Tversky showed is that humans aren’t the best at making rational [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I recently opened a Roth IRA with Charles Schwab. It’s not my primary IRA–that’s with Vanguard. In fact, the only reason I initially opened the account was to take advantage of Schwab’s 2% cash back credit card. (With the card, the cashback bonuses are deposited into a Schwab brokerage account. From there, you can have [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Do you care what the current market value of your TV is? What about the market value of the shirt you’re wearing right now? Or the market value of your cell phone? Of course you don’t care. Why? Because you didn’t buy them with the intention of selling them. You bought them with the intention [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Enter your email to receive free updates from Oblivious Investor:
Other ways to follow this blog:
