On the history of retail investing and where I think we are headed next.

On the risks and rewards of investing in stocks outside of the U.S.

On dollar cost averaging (DCA) and how often it fails as an investment strategy.

Investing lessons one year since the March 2020 bottom.

On calling bubbles too often and finding simple solutions to complex problems.

On Wall Street fixing the game and one of my favorite investment stories of all time.

On buying risky assets (U.S. stocks, Intl. Stocks, Bitcoin, etc.) near all-time highs.

On the expectation of losses and how to deal with them.

A different framework for thinking about equity investing and why you should invest in the stock market.

Quantifying just how crazy March 2020 was for the stock market and investors.

A historical examination of epidemics and market returns.

Why markets are never due for anything…or are they?

A more rational approach to examining historical investment returns.

Why valuations get more attention (and blame) than they deserve.

Why it’s better to invest a lump sum conservatively now than to dollar-cost average over time.

How time affects our perception of the skew in stock performance.

Some people think volatility is to be avoided. I illustrate that if you want to earn decent returns, volatility is a feature, not a bug, in stock markets.

A historical review of financial and biological systems and why they have a propensity to survive despite the worst of odds.

Wealth preservation over very long periods of time is hard. I discuss the historical evidence surrounding a variety of assets and how they preserve wealth.

On the periodic nature of progress and destruction that occurs in both markets and in life.