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Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS: THE 7 LEVELS OF NATE One of the most important, but controversial, ideas of investing is the ‘efficient market’ hypothesis. I say important, because it provides a great starting point for approaching investing and markets humbly, as well as for approaching the Financial Infotainment Industrial Complex with a healthy dose of skepticism. Most investors would be better off if they BOOK REVIEW: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS Book Review: Fooled by Randomness. January 14, 2013. , 4:27 pm. , Book Reviews, How Not To Invest, Wall Street. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions toBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS: THE 7 LEVELS OF NATE One of the most important, but controversial, ideas of investing is the ‘efficient market’ hypothesis. I say important, because it provides a great starting point for approaching investing and markets humbly, as well as for approaching the Financial Infotainment Industrial Complex with a healthy dose of skepticism. Most investors would be better off if they BOOK REVIEW: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS Book Review: Fooled by Randomness. January 14, 2013. , 4:27 pm. , Book Reviews, How Not To Invest, Wall Street. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions toBANKERS ANONYMOUS
I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civilsociety.
ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" BOOK REVIEW: INSIDE THE BLACK BOX I read Rishi Narang’s Inside the Black Box as a kind of primer on quantitative trading, in advance of reading Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys. Need for a primer on quantitative trading I need a primer before reading Flash Boys for several reasons. I was an ‘over-the-counter’ institutional bond guy, rather than a participant in the exchange-traded Continue reading "Book Review:Inside the
BOOK REVIEW: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years.” Now that I have given you, slyly, the same warning, let me emphasize Continue reading "Book Review: Fooled by Randomness" BOOK REVIEW: INNUMERACY, BY JOHN ALLEN PAULOS In Innumeracy – Mathematical Illiteracy And Its Consequences John Allen Paulos launches himself against the tide of mathematical illiteracy both as a polemicist and as a teacher. His stated purpose is to appeal to innumerates with enjoyable and illuminating examples of everyday, as well as fanciful, uses of mathematics. I enjoyed thebook, and some
BOOK REVIEW: THE WEALTH DRAGON WAY BY JOHN LEE AND VINCENT Con Artists and Bullies. I have a 4-word review for The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, The When, & The How To Become Infinitely Wealthy by John Lee and Vincent Wong. Nope. Nope nope nope. That sums up my view of this book. If that sounds redundant, well I’m sorry, but so is their book. We Continue reading "Book Review: The Wealth Dragon Way by John Lee and Vincent Wong" FOUNDING FATHERS ARCHIVES How does a profane, hip-hop, hit of a show, and a chapter, dropped in the middle of a behemoth book on Alex Hamilton, by Ron Chernow capture the current zeitgeist, show us to treat our debt with sacred honor? VARIABLE ANNUITIES SUCK ARCHIVES The Teacher’s retirement System (TRS) in Texas just capped mutual fund fees inside variable annuities at 1.75% following a “reform” in October 2017, to go into effect in October 2019. These fees are, in a word, bad. Even after that “reform.”. BOOK REVIEW: PEACE AND PLENTY BY SARAH BAN BREATHNACH February 6, 2014. , 6:45 pm. , Book Reviews. Peace and Plenty – Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity by Sarah Ban Breathnach is the worst personal finance book I’ve ever read. I have written several personal-finance book reviews in the past year and have found quite a bit positive to say about most of the books, especially emphasizingBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS Book Review: Fooled by Randomness. January 14, 2013. , 4:27 pm. , Book Reviews, How Not To Invest, Wall Street. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions toBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS Book Review: Fooled by Randomness. January 14, 2013. , 4:27 pm. , Book Reviews, How Not To Invest, Wall Street. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions to ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEWS ARCHIVES Book Reviews – with Amazon links. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civil society. BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" ME HOSTING LOCAL PBS-AFFILIATE NEWS SHOW Me Hosting Local PBS-affiliate News Show. March 19, 2021. , 3:53 am. , Audio Posts, Texas. It’s been about 32 years since I hosted a TV news showto be specific it was my high school weekly, called “Perspective.”. AnywayI guest hosted the PBS affiliate in San Antonio weekly show “ On The Record .”. Why not? BOOK REVIEW: STOCKS FOR THE LONG RUN BY JEREMY SIEGEL Reading Jeremy Siegel’s classic on investing Stocks For The Long Run: A Guide To Selecting Markets For Long-Term Growth, I was reminded of three well-known investing aphorisms. “Take the long view.” (Also related: “Successful people have long time horizons. Unsuccessful people have short time horizons.”) “It almost certainly isn’t different this time”; and “Read books, FOUNDING FATHERS ARCHIVES How does a profane, hip-hop, hit of a show, and a chapter, dropped in the middle of a behemoth book on Alex Hamilton, by Ron Chernow capture the current zeitgeist, show us to treat our debt with sacred honor? BOOK REVIEW: BAD BLOOD BY JOHN CARREYROU Book Review: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. I recently finished the best business book I’ve read in the past year, John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies In a Silicon Valley Startup, about the rise and fraud of healthcare technology firm Theranos. At its peak, prior to the fraud exposure, the company inspired awe. BOOK REVIEW: THE WEALTH DRAGON WAY BY JOHN LEE AND VINCENT Con Artists and Bullies. I have a 4-word review for The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, The When, & The How To Become Infinitely Wealthy by John Lee and Vincent Wong. Nope. Nope nope nope. That sums up my view of this book. If that sounds redundant, well I’m sorry, but so is their book. We Continue reading "Book Review: The Wealth Dragon Way by John Lee and Vincent Wong" THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS: THE 7 LEVELS OF NATE One of the most important, but controversial, ideas of investing is the ‘efficient market’ hypothesis. I say important, because it provides a great starting point for approaching investing and markets humbly, as well as for approaching the Financial Infotainment Industrial Complex with a healthy dose of skepticism. Most investors would be better off if they BOOK REVIEW: PEACE AND PLENTY BY SARAH BAN BREATHNACH February 6, 2014. , 6:45 pm. , Book Reviews. Peace and Plenty – Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity by Sarah Ban Breathnach is the worst personal finance book I’ve ever read. I have written several personal-finance book reviews in the past year and have found quite a bit positive to say about most of the books, especially emphasizingBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS Book Review: Fooled by Randomness. January 14, 2013. , 4:27 pm. , Book Reviews, How Not To Invest, Wall Street. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions toBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS Book Review: Fooled by Randomness. January 14, 2013. , 4:27 pm. , Book Reviews, How Not To Invest, Wall Street. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions to ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEWS ARCHIVES Book Reviews – with Amazon links. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civil society. BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" ME HOSTING LOCAL PBS-AFFILIATE NEWS SHOW Me Hosting Local PBS-affiliate News Show. March 19, 2021. , 3:53 am. , Audio Posts, Texas. It’s been about 32 years since I hosted a TV news showto be specific it was my high school weekly, called “Perspective.”. AnywayI guest hosted the PBS affiliate in San Antonio weekly show “ On The Record .”. Why not? BOOK REVIEW: STOCKS FOR THE LONG RUN BY JEREMY SIEGEL Reading Jeremy Siegel’s classic on investing Stocks For The Long Run: A Guide To Selecting Markets For Long-Term Growth, I was reminded of three well-known investing aphorisms. “Take the long view.” (Also related: “Successful people have long time horizons. Unsuccessful people have short time horizons.”) “It almost certainly isn’t different this time”; and “Read books, FOUNDING FATHERS ARCHIVES How does a profane, hip-hop, hit of a show, and a chapter, dropped in the middle of a behemoth book on Alex Hamilton, by Ron Chernow capture the current zeitgeist, show us to treat our debt with sacred honor? BOOK REVIEW: THE WEALTH DRAGON WAY BY JOHN LEE AND VINCENT Con Artists and Bullies. I have a 4-word review for The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, The When, & The How To Become Infinitely Wealthy by John Lee and Vincent Wong. Nope. Nope nope nope. That sums up my view of this book. If that sounds redundant, well I’m sorry, but so is their book. We Continue reading "Book Review: The Wealth Dragon Way by John Lee and Vincent Wong" THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS: THE 7 LEVELS OF NATE One of the most important, but controversial, ideas of investing is the ‘efficient market’ hypothesis. I say important, because it provides a great starting point for approaching investing and markets humbly, as well as for approaching the Financial Infotainment Industrial Complex with a healthy dose of skepticism. Most investors would be better off if they BOOK REVIEW: BAD BLOOD BY JOHN CARREYROU Book Review: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. I recently finished the best business book I’ve read in the past year, John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies In a Silicon Valley Startup, about the rise and fraud of healthcare technology firm Theranos. At its peak, prior to the fraud exposure, the company inspired awe. BOOK REVIEW: PEACE AND PLENTY BY SARAH BAN BREATHNACH February 6, 2014. , 6:45 pm. , Book Reviews. Peace and Plenty – Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity by Sarah Ban Breathnach is the worst personal finance book I’ve ever read. I have written several personal-finance book reviews in the past year and have found quite a bit positive to say about most of the books, especially emphasizingBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions to BOOK REVIEW: AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BAD ARGUMENTS BY ALI An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. We are inundated all day by opinions of friends, family members, frenemies, colleagues, bosses, television commentators, newspaper columnists, radio hosts, political leaders, and ex-banker bloggers all making moreBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDAR One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions to BOOK REVIEW: AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BAD ARGUMENTS BY ALI An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. We are inundated all day by opinions of friends, family members, frenemies, colleagues, bosses, television commentators, newspaper columnists, radio hosts, political leaders, and ex-banker bloggers all making more ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off CONTACT - BANKERS ANONYMOUS Contact Us. Here’s your chance to commend, enlighten, gently suggest, pass on tips, or disagree without being disagreeable. Conversely, you could put on your internet troll hat. It’s your choice. But the latter would not be making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, now would it? Why do we ask for your name Continue reading "Contact" HIRE ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS Consultant to your Household or Business. I have consulted to financial institutions, lenders, small businesses, families, and individuals. Household financial consultant. I call what I provide, only partly jokingly, “financial therapy.”. For an individual or couple I recommend 5 to 10 hours of consulting, for which I charge$300/hour.
HOW NOT TO INVEST ARCHIVES I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civilsociety.
ME HOSTING LOCAL PBS-AFFILIATE NEWS SHOW Me Hosting Local PBS-affiliate News Show. March 19, 2021. , 3:53 am. , Audio Posts, Texas. It’s been about 32 years since I hosted a TV news showto be specific it was my high school weekly, called “Perspective.”. AnywayI guest hosted the PBS affiliate in San Antonio weekly show “ On The Record .”. Why not?BANKERS ANONYMOUS
I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civilsociety.
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I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civilsociety.
BOOK REVIEW: RED NOTICE, BY BILL BROWDER The terrible job working for soon-to-indicted Robert Maxwell. Valuing an aging ship fleet above the Arctic Circle for Salomon Brothers, and finding tremendous value in what others thought was a scrap heap. Browder writes breezily, humorously, humbly, even about the years in which he gained financial experience and stature – just as Lewisdid.
THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS: THE 7 LEVELS OF NATE One of the most important, but controversial, ideas of investing is the ‘efficient market’ hypothesis. I say important, because it provides a great starting point for approaching investing and markets humbly, as well as for approaching the Financial Infotainment Industrial Complex with a healthy dose of skepticism. Most investors would be better off if they BOOK REVIEW: THE WEALTH DRAGON WAY BY JOHN LEE AND VINCENT Con Artists and Bullies. I have a 4-word review for The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, The When, & The How To Become Infinitely Wealthy by John Lee and Vincent Wong. Nope. Nope nope nope. That sums up my view of this book. If that sounds redundant, well I’m sorry, but so is their book. We Continue reading "Book Review: The Wealth Dragon Way by John Lee and Vincent Wong"BANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDARSCARCITY BOOK PDFSCARCITY BOOK SUMMARY One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions to BOOK REVIEW: AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BAD ARGUMENTS BY ALI An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. We are inundated all day by opinions of friends, family members, frenemies, colleagues, bosses, television commentators, newspaper columnists, radio hosts, political leaders, and ex-banker bloggers all making moreBANKERS ANONYMOUS
Public Speaking. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOR OF MONEY I think of myself as pretty informed about financial history in the United States, but Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap covers a whole area of history about which I knew very little. In a narrow sense Baradaran’s book is about the history of black-owned and black-customer-oriented banks. Continue reading "Book Review: The Color Of Money" BOOK REVIEW: A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL STREET First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read. Malkiel’s central thesis – that equity markets are so efficient at pricing stocks relative to their risk that the vast majority of Continue reading "Book Review: A Random Walk Down BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH BY NAPOLEON HILL EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote the below review in 2014, after reading the book because it makes many Top 10 lists of favorite or best business books of all time. I still stand by my review, BUT was fascinated to read a long piece of research in December 2016 on Napoleon Hill’s life career. Hill was, it turns out, a Continue reading "Book Review: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill" SOCIAL SECURITY SPREADSHEET FUN Social Security benefits are determined by both your level of income and your years of earning income. More earning years and higher income translate to higher benefits. Social Security benefits depend on calculating your average monthly income for your thirty-five highest earning years. You need a minimum of ten years to qualify forbenefits.
BOOK REVIEW: THE WAY TO WEALTH BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin reminds me of my father’s world-view, formed as a Depression-era child, delivered in Franklin’s 18 th Century style. Also, these clichés are true. We know “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” and a few others, but I BOOK REVIEW: THE GAME OF NUMBERS BY NICK MURRAY Book Review: The Game of Numbers by Nick Murray. September 2, 2015. , 7:29 pm. , Book Reviews, Investing, Personal Finance. Nick Murray wrote the book – Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth – that anchors my beliefs on asset allocation, so I decided to try another one of his books, The Game of Numbers: Professional Prospecting For Financial BOOK REVIEW: SCARCITY BY SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN AND ELDARSCARCITY BOOK PDFSCARCITY BOOK SUMMARY One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in the 2013 book Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions. Specifically, the lack of something – scarcity – makes us unable – cognitively – to make the right decisions to BOOK REVIEW: AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF BAD ARGUMENTS BY ALI An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. We are inundated all day by opinions of friends, family members, frenemies, colleagues, bosses, television commentators, newspaper columnists, radio hosts, political leaders, and ex-banker bloggers all making more ABOUT ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS A friend asked me that recently, and I answered him in the audio link above. I recommend clicking there for my answer. My website design and marketing folks at Sweb Development posted this written interview with me, and this video interview with me, which are good explanations for what I’m trying to do.My (first) book is The Financial Rules for New College Graduates: Invest Before Paying Off CONTACT - BANKERS ANONYMOUS Contact Us. Here’s your chance to commend, enlighten, gently suggest, pass on tips, or disagree without being disagreeable. Conversely, you could put on your internet troll hat. It’s your choice. But the latter would not be making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, now would it? Why do we ask for your name Continue reading "Contact" HIRE ME - BANKERS ANONYMOUS Consultant to your Household or Business. I have consulted to financial institutions, lenders, small businesses, families, and individuals. Household financial consultant. I call what I provide, only partly jokingly, “financial therapy.”. For an individual or couple I recommend 5 to 10 hours of consulting, for which I charge$300/hour.
HOW NOT TO INVEST ARCHIVES I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civilsociety.
ME HOSTING LOCAL PBS-AFFILIATE NEWS SHOW Me Hosting Local PBS-affiliate News Show. March 19, 2021. , 3:53 am. , Audio Posts, Texas. It’s been about 32 years since I hosted a TV news showto be specific it was my high school weekly, called “Perspective.”. AnywayI guest hosted the PBS affiliate in San Antonio weekly show “ On The Record .”. Why not?BANKERS ANONYMOUS
I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civilsociety.
TEXAS ARCHIVES
I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civilsociety.
BOOK REVIEW: RED NOTICE, BY BILL BROWDER The terrible job working for soon-to-indicted Robert Maxwell. Valuing an aging ship fleet above the Arctic Circle for Salomon Brothers, and finding tremendous value in what others thought was a scrap heap. Browder writes breezily, humorously, humbly, even about the years in which he gained financial experience and stature – just as Lewisdid.
THE EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS: THE 7 LEVELS OF NATE One of the most important, but controversial, ideas of investing is the ‘efficient market’ hypothesis. I say important, because it provides a great starting point for approaching investing and markets humbly, as well as for approaching the Financial Infotainment Industrial Complex with a healthy dose of skepticism. Most investors would be better off if they BOOK REVIEW: THE WEALTH DRAGON WAY BY JOHN LEE AND VINCENT Con Artists and Bullies. I have a 4-word review for The Wealth Dragon Way: The Why, The When, & The How To Become Infinitely Wealthy by John Lee and Vincent Wong. Nope. Nope nope nope. That sums up my view of this book. If that sounds redundant, well I’m sorry, but so is their book. We Continue reading "Book Review: The Wealth Dragon Way by John Lee and Vincent Wong"__ Search
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ME HOSTING LOCAL PBS-AFFILIATE NEWS SHOW March 19, 2021 No Comments It’s been about 32 years since I hosted a TV news show…to be specific it was my high school weekly, called “Perspective.” Anyway…I guest hosted AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookFacebookShare to TumblrTumblrShare to TwitterTwitterShare to EmailEmailShare to MoreAddThisRead More »
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BACKED THE WRONG SPAC March 8, 2021 No Comments Nominations are still open for the craziest frothy finance stories of 2021. Strong cases can be made (and I have made them!) for bitcoin and AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookFacebookShare to TumblrTumblrShare to TwitterTwitterShare to EmailEmailShare to MoreAddThisRead More »
YOUR BITCOIN WARNING March 2, 2021 No Comments You’ve been writing me a lot lately, wondering about bitcoin. What is this technology? What is it used for? Should you get involved?But also,
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