I’ve got a bunch of partially finished posts sitting around. I’m going to finish them by writing the rest of them or deleting them. There might be a flood of new posts here in a short period of time. Or there might be nothing. Depends on how many ...
It’s been a long time since I posted here. Seven months!
I’ve heard people make statements like this: “I’m 50 and I haven’t saved anything for retirement. I wanted to send my kids through college and pay off all my debt first. I’m starting to put money in the stock market. I’m not worried because my hou...
I do almost all my programming on Linux. The desire for a better programming environment was one of the reasons I started moving to Linux more than 20 years ago. The reality is that Linux is not sufficient if you’re working with other economists. ...
It’s not the easiest thing to get going with Python in 2025. If you’re used to working with something like R, the experience with Python is likely to be less than you hoped.
On starting a new Matlab installation on Ubuntu, I got the message
Does stock market volatility bother me? It actually doesn’t. I don’t lose any sleep or worry about my retirement funds at all.
This is a short note to explain why it might make sense to take a very conservative approach to your retirement portfolio. It’s a response to the blanket advice so often given that you’re making a massive error if you go ultraconservative.
Disclaimer: I’m not a finance researcher. I’ve read finance papers over the years, handled some finance papers for an academic journal, and even published a couple papers with finance content. That doesn’t make me a “finance guy”! This is a blog p...
My early research was dominated by the topic of inflation. I’m not going to go into the details of that today. Instead, I want to respond to some things I see in various places on the internet (Reddit, HN, YouTube, …).