The Cure For FOMO
We have this tendency to revere quotes by famous dead people even when they steer us down the wrong path. Here’s one… Nothing so undermines your financial judgement as the sight of your neighbor getting rich. – J. P. Morgan Morgan was a bully and an egotist so of course this was his take –…
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Can ‘Smart Thinking’ Books Really Give You The Edge?
The world out there can often seem as though it is hurtling to hell in a handcart: people are refusing safe vaccines for a dangerous disease, extreme weather events caused by global heating are on TV nightly, billionaires are shooting themselves into the stratosphere in penis-shaped spacecraft while record numbers of the precariously employed rely…
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Why You Should Always Switch
One of the most famous television game shows from the heyday of the genre from the 1950s to the 1980s was Let’s Make a Deal. Its host, Monty Hall, achieved a second kind of fame when a dilemma in probability theory, loosely based on the show, was named after him. A contestant is faced with three…
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Financial Autonomy – Should You Trade?
A few weeks ago I got to have a chat with Paul Benson of Financial Autonomy. You can listen to the episode here.
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