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Ways people make, keep and lose money, how work and business really operate, and the money stories that do not hold up. We describe and source; we never give financial advice.
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AI and Trading: What Is Real Today, What the Research Says, and the Scams to Know
Computers already do much of the routine work of trading, and that is not new.
Bull vs Bear Market: What's the Difference?
A bull market is a stretch of rising prices; a bear market is a stretch of falling prices.
Market Cycles Explained: Bull and Bear Markets, Recessions, and What Past Crashes Show
Market cycles are the uneven rises and falls that people label bull and bear markets, or expansions and recessions.
Stocks vs Tokenized Stocks: What's the Difference?
A stock is a share of ownership in a company; a tokenized stock is a blockchain token linked to a share.
The Bitcoin Halving Explained: How It Works, What Happened After Each One, and What Research Says
The Bitcoin halving cuts the new coins paid for each block in half, every 210,000 blocks.
Tokenized Stocks: What You Actually Hold, Who Can Buy Them, and What Regulators Say
A tokenized stock is a blockchain token linked to a company's share.
Skin in the Game Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Skin in the Game argues that whoever takes the upside of a decision should also carry its downside.
How to Track Disclosed Trades by Members of Congress, Officials and Insiders: The Free Sources, the Apps, and What the Research Says
You track them through the official filings, public and free on US government sites.
AI Property Tools: What They Can and Can't Tell You, Checked
AI property tools can estimate a home's value, but an automated value is an estimate, not an appraisal.
Freakonomics Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Freakonomics uses data to look for the incentives hidden behind everyday behaviour, from cheating teachers and sumo wrestlers to estate agents and a street gang.
Never Split the Difference Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Never Split the Difference argues that negotiation runs on emotion more than logic, so its author, a former FBI kidnapping negotiator, teaches listening first.
Start with Why Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Simon Sinek's Start with Why argues that leaders and organisations inspire people by starting with why they exist, then how they work, then what they make.
The 4-Hour Workweek Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Timothy Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek argues for measuring work by the time it buys, not only the money, in four steps: define, eliminate, automate, liberate.
The Lean Startup Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
The Lean Startup treats a new venture's plan as hypotheses to test: build, measure how customers respond, then pivot or persevere.
The Psychology of Money Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Housel argues that doing well with money depends more on behaviour, such as patience and room for error, than on how much you know.
The Post-Authenticity Shift: Why the Living Room is the New Feed
Post-authenticity is our label for a tension on YouTube: AI tools are built into the platform, while its own payment rules reward original work.
MOASS Meaning: Mother of All Short Squeezes
MOASS stands for "Mother Of All Short Squeezes": a squeeze bigger than any before it.
The Principles of Sun Tzu: The Art of War in Business
The Art of War's famous line, III.18 in Giles's 1910 translation, says: if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Financial Education: The Rich Dad Poor Dad Blueprint for Financial Freedom ∙ Book Analysis & Review
Rich Dad Poor Dad (1997) argues that attitudes to money, not income, decide who gets rich, and that school does not teach money.