One of the side effects of the move to social media has been the loss of depth in online communication. I’m using the term “social media” as a reference to any form of online media where other users of the site can are able to interact with and of...
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. ...
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, …).