Category: Articles
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Notes on Capital Ideas – The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
The classic, readable journey through the creation of modern finance and investing theory in the second half of the 20th century.
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Blackjack as Entertainment
How much does it cost you to play blackjack at a casino? If you play the optimal strategy, the answer is not much!
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Note on Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail
Short review and quotes that interested me from this 2005 book on why complex systems (like economies) are hard to manage.
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Calling Doubles Tennis Serves
It turns out that the receiving partner is much more accurate in making “long” calls on serves in double tennis than the receiver. But how much more and what does that suggest for reasonable play?
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When to Start Taking Social Security
You get a bigger social security payout per month if you delay the start of benefits. Should you?
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