Robeco's Concise Financial History of Europe

If you like finance and history, you'll love Robeco's " A Concise Financial History of Europe ," written by Jan Sytze Moss...

Centralized vs. Decentralized Social Welfare Maximizers

Faith in a select group of public servants to maximize social welfare is no better founded than the belief in the supernatural gifts of king...

The History of Individual Property Rights

John Locke It is important to understand that property rights are not grounded on logic, but no right is. The liberal ideas that gave rise t...

Why My 1994 Low-Vol Dissertation Didn't Make Impact

Pim van Vliet posted a link to my 1994 dissertation , noting it was an early documentation of the low-vol effect. One may wonder, why did th...

How to Set Up Your Own Bitcoin/Ethereum IRA

Update : This is all out of date as of Jan 24 2018. Check out this link for a review of several crypto IRA providers. For the past couple o...

Maxims

My son is going to college this fall, and I wanted to give him a set of my favorite quotations. As his name is Max, I titled the book 'M...

Jordan Peterson's Business Cycle Theory

University of Toronto psychologist Jordan Peterson has gained YouTube notoriety recently for speaking out against social justice warrior l...

Robeco's Pim van Vliet has a new Low Vol book

Pim van Vliet  runs one of the oldest and most successful Low Volatility funds in the world, which has now flowered into Robeco’s  Conservat...