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SEC Files First Crypto Insider-Trading Case

July 22, 2022 | George Soros is one of the most profitable and powerful investors of our time. He is called “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” for his famous short sale of $10 billion worth of pound sterling, which netted him a $1 billion profit in 1992.

How to think like Charlie Munger

July 21, 2022 | Though we recommend listening to the speech here, we’ll discuss some of the major ones and how they can adversely affect our investing performance. As Nick Sleep said, understand these tendencies and then train yourself out of them.

Investors cutting exposure to Risk-on Assets

July 20, 2022 | Bank of America conducted a monthly fund manager survey of 259 participants with $722 billion under management. The survey shows investors have cut their exposure to risk assets to levels not seen since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008...

What’s Your Time Preference?

July 19, 2022 | In investing, you’ll often hear about individuals having a high or low time preference. What is this, and what do we mean by it?

BRRRR Real Estate Investing Breakdown

July 18, 2022 | Today, we’ll take a deeper dive into a few of the core metrics you need to know early on in the strategy that will increase your odds of success.

What three indicators say about the economy

July 15, 2022 | For insights into how things are going right now, we looked to one of our favorite investors from the great country of Italy, Alfonso Peccatiello. He discusses the three types of indicators he uses...

Stop thinking like the crowd

July 14, 2022 | If there’s any single takeaway we can all share from the past few months of financial market turbulence, it’s that investing is, in fact, not easy.

Maybe bear markets aren’t so scary?

July 13, 2022 | According to Nygren, over the last 77 years, there have been twelve bear markets in the U.S., including this current one. In those, the longest it took for a market to bottom after entering a bear market was two years...

Four Horsemen of the investing apocalypse

July 12, 2022 | There’s a lot of talk these days about whether the U.S., and much of the world, is in or about to enter a recession. The ins-and-outs of the business cycle are not always common knowledge, and in particular, we like the way that Cullen Roche thinks about it.

Force Multiplier

January 18, 2024 | A program meant to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels is helping put cash in renewable energy companies’ pockets by selling tax breaks to corporate giants like JPMorgan.

Crowded Trade

January 17, 2024 | In Bank of America’s surveys of investment fund managers since 2017, U.S. tech stocks (aka “Magnificent Seven”, big tech, Nasdaq, FAANG, etc.) have frequently been reported as the “most crowded trade” in markets.

Space Farming

January 16, 2024 | Our Chart of the Day (in the section above) shows that Chinese growth remains a top concern for the global economy.

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