The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is bestselling author Michael Lewis’ (Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side) look at the 2008 financial crisis and the events and adventures that created it. I didn’t get it. Or, more accurately, it wasn’t a very satisfying read.
The Big Short leaves you — at various points in the [...]
I recently had the opportunity to play the CashFlow board game with a group of Bay Area real estate investors. CashFlow is a game designed by Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) to teach basic financial and bookkeeping skills. It’s something of a cross between Monopoly and Life, with the object of the game being [...]
Location, location, location.
On the Internet, a good domain name is the online equivalent of that corner lot in the neighborhood with good schools. The problem is, all the good names are taken and only “fixer-uppers” are left. That’s why you have companies called Flickr, Rowdii, Weebly, and Sedo — which auctions off domain names [...]
And all I have to do to claim my winnings is send my bank account information to some guy in Nigeria with a hotmail email address. Here is the super-official text of my winning notification:
From: House Of The Senate House
Subject: Attn
This is to officially inform you that 6.8 Million Dollars has been credited
to you. for [...]
The “crowds” (Amazon reviewers) liked James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, so I checked it out and read it poolside in Cabo. I wasn’t a huge fan.
While the book had a few interesting tidbits, it was mostly filled with less-than-insightful passages explaining why our collective intelligence can actually be pretty smart. For example, it doesn’t [...]
I picked up David Bach’s Smart Couples Finish Rich from the library and finished it over the weekend. I can’t remember who had recommended it, but I didn’t feel it was the best financial book for a couple in their mid-twenties. Too much time was spent on wills and trusts, life insurance, long term care [...]
