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Published Dec 11, 2019
Tags: economics
Cities have long lured skilled labor into their clutches with higher-paying jobs. In recent years, the cost of living has risen so much in largest cities, people are starting to wonder if they're worth the cost. I'd argue that they aren't...
Published Dec 10, 2019
Tags: design | economics | investing
One of the things that's caught my attention recently is how over time the masses try their best to follow the wealthy. Our cultural and instinctual drive for status often leads us to imitate behaviors in order to show the world and ourselves which social class we fit into...
Published Dec 07, 2019 in The Index Fund Bubble
If you've read the other posts in my Index Fund Bubble collection, you're probably thinking that I'm a doomsdayer waiting for the economy to catastrophically collapse. That couldn't be be further from the truth...
Published Dec 06, 2019 in The Index Fund Bubble
There are three companies who manage the vast majority of index fund assets—Vangaurd, Fidelity, and Black Rock. When you buy shares of their index funds, they retain the right to vote on your behalf. That means there are three top executives (one each at Vangaurd, Black Rock, and Fidelity) who get to chose how to vote for all of the companies in all of their index funds for all of their customers...
Published Dec 06, 2019 in The Index Fund Bubble
Share buybacks have been used successfully by famous investors, but have become overused and abused by corporate executives trying to appease shareholders to lengthen their tenure and inflate their bonuses/salary. Here's why I think we're in a Share Buyback Bubble...
Published Dec 05, 2019 in The Index Fund Bubble
I've been a fan of index investing since 2011 and put a large portion of my investible assets into index funds for many years. However, I started noticing cracks in the foundation near the end of 2017 and have since liquidated my index fund positions. Here's why...
Published Nov 26, 2019
Tags: economics
I'm neither against taxing the wealthy more nor am I rich enough for any of the proposed wealth taxes to apply to me. The biggest problem I see with a wealth tax is that the top 0.01% have most of their wealth tied up in companies and wouldn't have enough cash to pay their tax each year.