Author : PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM

If you’ve read my paper Understanding Modern Portfolio Construction you know that I like to think of all financial instruments as if they’re bonds.  This...

Jason Zweig has a couple of good pieces in the WSJ today on gold (see here and here). Jason is not a big fan of...

One of the criticisms that has emerged during the Brexit event is the criticism of experts and economists specifically. One claim that has been thrown...

The UK has decided to leave the EU. It’s a strange vote given how little support there was by reputable economic experts.  With the exception...

I just finished reading an excellent book called “Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction” by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. The authors do a...

Ichiro Suzuki is about to break Pete Rose’s all-time hits record of 4,256.¹ To understand how incredible this record is, just think that Derek Jeter...

John Oliver had a wonderful segment last night about the deceptive and damaging practices of some financial advisors and financial firms. I’ve spent much of...

Here’s an article in the Wall Street Journal citing how bearish George Soros is. Which is strange because I feel like I’ve read that somewhere....

The best investors in the world all have one thing in common – they have a well defined plan that they stick with through thick...

Max Planck once said that science advances one funeral at a time.  In the fields of finance and economics it seems like we progress one plague...