Essay Review of “Murder on the Orient Express – The Mystery of Underperformance” Once in a while I read something which crystalizes for me – with data and arguments better than I could hope to make – what I already suspected but hadn’t yet put into words. Charles D. Ellis writes in Financial Analysis Journal[1]

Every once in a while I read a finance article that sticks in my head and never goes away.  An article about the historical intersection of debt and the United States from the New Yorker from four years ago by Jill Lepore is just one of these.[1] The USA of IOU Jill Lepore’s article explains

I’m just going to come out and say it, ok?  I miss the Great Recession already. I miss it for two reasons: first as an investor and second as a human. The Investment Side of the Great Recession As an investor, the Great Recession represented the good times, now past.[1] Recessions – or at least

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book should come with a warning on the cover: “If you are turned off by an arrogant, attacking, argumentative style, you will miss one of the best set of ideas on markets and investing in the last 20 years.”[1] Now that I have given you, slyly, the same warning, let me emphasize