The Future According to the Fortune-Makers

Ever notice how billionaires have been acting weird lately? Not eccentric-rich, weird. Scared weird. It’s as if they know something the rest of us don’t. You’ve got Bezos liquidating $8.5 billion in Amazon stock. Zuckerberg is building a $100 million bunker in Hawaii. Meanwhile, your financial advisor is still chirping about “buying the dip” and “staying the […]

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The Advice That Transformed My Finances: Five Principles I Live By

Tip #1. Bulls and bears can both make money, but pigs get slaughtered. Early in my career, I shared an office with a man a few years older than me who was investing in stocks. I hadn’t yet accumulated a significant nest egg, but I’d always had a saver mentality. Learning about investments seemed the […]

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How I Stayed Safe During the Latest Market Meltdown

“What do you think of today’s market, Denis?” Franz texted me. I didn’t know what my friend was talking about because I was playing pool in Bangkok when the message arrived. The game frustrated me because a young lady beat me for the third consecutive time. I was trying to repair my ego instead of watching the […]

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The Unfair Advantage of Lazy Investing (And Why It Works)

Three years ago, I made what might be the laziest financial decision of my adult life. I bought some stocks, but then I forgot they existed. Not on purpose — life just got busy, you know? Kids, work, that whole thing where you blink and suddenly it’s December again. Turns out that “strategy” — if […]

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