Beauty & Terror

“Let everything happen to you — beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”  – Rainer Maria Rilke From 1929 to 1932, GDP in the United States declined by 30%, the stock market lost 73% of its value, and unemployment hit an all-time high...

Lyrical Markets

Markets are a complete mystery and somehow can have meaning to everyone. People view the movement of markets as understandable. The S&P 500 has fallen more than 13% this year, and The NASDAQ has fallen 21% — officially entering a Bear Market (a drop of 20% from...

A Million Dollars

I cannot count the number of times I have heard people say, “If I only had a million dollars!” “Then I would take some time off, spend more time with my family, take that trip, start that business, do that one thing I have always wanted to do.” I have come to the...

A Case for Cash

Cash has the lowest return of any possible investment. In some cases — like today — cash carries a negative return when you consider inflation. Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Meeting had nearly 40,000 people in attendance in 2019. One of the questions asked by the...

Why Turning Down Money May Actually Make You Wealthier

When I was young, I remember hearing stories from all of my friends about how much money their parents were saving for them to go to college. Then, when they became old enough to drive, their parents bought them a car. These cars weren’t your typical used junker or...