Kanye West, it turns out, is one heck of an investor. According to a recent analysis, a group of West's stock picks this year has beaten the overall market by forty percentage points. It's an astonishing result. What, if anything, can we learn from it? First, some background: As you may know, West [...]
Working through the uglies
My sons' basketball coach, George, has a favorite expression: He talks about “working through the uglies.” When you're developing a new skill, he says, you shouldn't expect it to be perfect the first time, or even the second. But, if you keep working at it, over time there will be progress, “from [...]
Great Eight
In 2013 a curious thing happened in Stockholm. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to three academics who had developed theories about stock prices. What was odd was that two of the recipients — Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller — couldn't have been more opposed [...]
The Lopez twins and your retirement
If you're a basketball fan, you may be familiar with the Lopez twins—Brook and Robin. On the surface, they are identical in every way. Both stand seven feet tall. Both went to Stanford University. Both entered the NBA draft in 2008, and both were picked in the first round. Since then, both have [...]
The opposite of Nostradamus
Over the course of his lifetime, the self-proclaimed fortune teller Nostradamus published more than six thousand different predictions. With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to see that there was little substance or predictive value in all of those prophecies. In fact, in his day, even the [...]
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