Oscar Wilde once made this observation: “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” In other words, the only way to truly learn something is through experience. When it comes to investing, though, this is easier [...]
The “right” way to invest
In 1774, an Amsterdam businessman named Abraham van Ketwich created a new type of investment. After raising money from a group of individuals, van Ketwich built a portfolio of bonds. He deposited the bonds in a metal box in his office then had three people secure it using three different locks. In [...]
Personal finance illustrated
In the ancient world, before the invention of the printing press, a strategy for remembering information was to build a so-called memory palace. The idea was to associate words with images. Even today, this is how participants in memory competitions can achieve feats like reciting a thousand digits [...]
Angel investing
In the 1990s, Mark Cuban started one of the first Internet companies, a video streaming service called Broadcast.com, and later sold it to Yahoo for several billion dollars. With some of those proceeds, he bought the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise and sold that as well, taking home another several [...]
Market worries
Historically, markets have delivered similar returns under both Democrat and Republican administrations. For that reason, my view is that investors shouldn’t worry too much about who occupies the White House. That’s why I tend to stay away from discussions involving politics. But sometimes the news [...]
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