Articles
The Hidden Advantages of Investing from NOT New York City
What are the hidden advantages of living away from “noisy” investing centers like New York?
Money Managers Are Not Factory Workers
One of the biggest hazards of being a professional money manager is that you are expected to behave in a certain way: You have to come to the office every day, work long hours, slog through countless emails, be on top of your portfolio, watch business TV and consume news continuously, and dress well and conservatively, wearing a rope around the only part of your body that lets air get to your brain.
The Super Bowl Is a Tradition
The beauty and embarrassment of writing is that your past essays can be easily unearthed and brought to the present. ...
DeepSeek Breaks the AI Paradigm
I’ve received emails from readers asking my thoughts on DeepSeek. I need to start with two warnings. First, the usual one: I’m a generalist value investor, not a technology specialist, so my knowledge of AI models is superficial. Second, and more unusually, we don’t have all the facts yet.
Escaping Stock Market Double Hell
Over the last few years, our portfolio has skewed more international. Today, if you only invest in the US, you're experiencing two stock market hells.
Embracing Stock Market Stoicism
2024 brought me back to a core Stoic principle that I hold close to my heart: the dichotomy of control. We can apply it in investing.
Thoughts from the Consumer Electronics Show
My son Jonah and I were at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. I wanted to attend CES to shake myself out of my comfort zone.
Q&A Series: Money Habits for Kids and the Power of Writing
In this Q&A excerpt, we'll explore teaching money habits to young people and how writing has improved my investment approach.
The Impact of Higher Interest Rates on the Economy – AI Edition
I asked AI to educate and entertain my readers with a radio show-style dialogue based on my essay - The Impact of Higher Interest Rates on the Economy.
Navigating Market Cycles: From Bulls to Nvidia – AI Edition
I asked AI to transform my essays into a radio show-style conversation. In this episode, topic is stock market math, sideways markets, the role of P/E in market cycles, impact of interest rates on P/E, economic analysis, Magnificent Seven stocks, NVIDIA, and a lot more.
Managing a Million: What Would I Do Differently?
Warren Buffett has stated multiple times that if he could manage a very small amount of money today, he would be able to return more than 50% per year to shareholders. If you managed a million dollars of only your own money, would you do it differently?
A Balanced Life: My Approach
How do you balance your life between being an investor, running a firm, writing and other important aspects of your life such as your family?
Choosing an Investment Manager: Beyond Warren and Charlie
If you were obliged to invest all your investable assets with one person and you couldn’t choose Warren or Charlie, whom would you pick?
Q&A Series: On Parenting and Personal Growth
I wanted to share excerpts from a Q&A session I held with readers in Omaha. This excerpt focuses on parenting and personal growth.
Challenging Investment Rules and Key Investor Traits
What’s a famous investment rule I don’t agree with? Which key characteristics should a good investor have?
Made in America
In 2004, I started writing for TheStreet.com. At the time, TheStreet was an interesting experiment.
Becoming an investor
Hallway conversations with Joe and Bill at PVG Asset Management sparked my love affair with investing. I knew I wanted to be an analyst.
The Infinite Game in Telecom
CHTR, just like Comcast, showed only a very slight decline in broadband customers in the quarter. Most of the decline came from the US government removing subsidies for rural customers.
Second-class citizen
I was often made aware that there was something wrong with my being Jewish. Even as a little child, I often encountered a second-class-citizen attitude toward me.
The Hidden Risk in “Religion” Stocks
A basic property of religion is that the believer takes a leap of faith: to believe without expecting proof.
The Best and Worst Investment Decisions I’ve Made
I’m going to share stories about my best and worst investment decisions. But don’t worry, this isn’t just a brag-and-cringe session about making or losing money.
