If you panic, panic first

One rule in the stock market is: โ€œIf you panic, panic first!โ€ Itโ€™s about first-mover advantage under extreme pressure. Bull markets make you feel smarter than you really are.Bear markets make you feel dumber than you really are. Itโ€™s almostโ€ฆ

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I have read 269 books โ€“ so you donโ€™t have to.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฒ books ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ. A well-researched non-fiction book is the single most info-dense piece of culture in existence, full stop. Some author spent a few years โ€” hell, a decade, sometimes โ€” gathering material, sifting through it,โ€ฆ

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Who is right about your money?

Traditional Economists or Self-help authors? So the question is whether popular finance books give the same valuable advice as academic economists. Economist & Finance professor James J. Choi was so interested in this question that he surveyed the 50 mostโ€ฆ

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Relationships matter more than money

Do You See It?

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜๐˜‚๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ โ€” ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜†, ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€, ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ, ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฒ, ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€, ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฐ. โ€” ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€. โ€œGood relationships are significant enough that if we had to take all eighty-four years of the Harvardโ€ฆ

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