Finance
8 posts. All writing →
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AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens
Men have become the tools of their tools
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Next Iteration of Valunicorn Calculator
“The goal is two-fold: level-up my Elm skills by continuing to maintain and develop a more complex application and add features to a project which people can use to invest sustainably.”
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5 Reasons Interest Rates Are Rising
Money in the bank or under the mattress, it turns out, may not be that safe after all. -
Northern Colorado Value Investing Meetup
I’m speaking on the value investing newsletter Valunicorn at the next Northern Colorado Value Investing Meetup “Q2 2015”. Register here. The meeting will take place beginning at 8:15 AM Sat Jun 27 @ La Vita Bella Coffee in Longmont. Hope to see you there!
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Praise for Carmen Segarra
“The issues are lack of backbone, transparency, thoroughness and perseverance.”
– So Who is Carmen Segarra? A Fed Whistleblower Q&A (ProPublica)
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The Cycle
I have been thinking a lot about economic cycles lately with the surge in speculative activity during the first quarter of 2014 and Facebook’s recent $19 billion takeover of WhatsApp. This is the 4th largest technology acquisition in history and there have been a record breaking $42.4 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions in the first month and a half of 2014 according to Thomson Reuters.
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The Bitcoin Bubble
I no longer work as a financial professional. I am a software developer. Nevertheless, a deluge of articles about Bitcoin recently has driven me to write an obligatory blog post memorializing my perspective. Bitcoin is just like the South Sea Bubble and Tulip mania in that the price increases are unsustainable as they are not based on intrinsic value.
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Pay As You Learn
Be careful out there, kids! While many repayment plans are available to college graduates today, it is worth considering the implications of postponing interest payments. If you are going to maintain a Partial Financial Hardship (PFH) for the next 20-25 years, then Income Based Repayment (IBR) or Pay As You Earn (PAYE) may be good options for you, but what if you don’t?