Days go fast and nights are slow. It has been two weeks that I work from home and not everything is in a bear market: my work hours went up +50%. Part is due to our company network that is not design to sustain such a traffic, so sometimes even Read more
[It took me several weeks to finish this post. Even if I follow financial markets since decades, it is difficult to remind myself that circumstances can turn on a dime. I envision people that were cheering for Tesla or Bitcoin just days ago are now in the ‘never invest my Read more
Like every Sunday morning, I went to run and listen to a podcast; this week it was Bill Simmons interview to Jason Segel. I am not a huge fan of Jason himself but I like a lot of movie/series he was in and it also happens we are almost the Read more
Yesterday evening I was watching Uncut Gems on Netflix when a friend texted me: F: Are you looking at Tesla? Me: Did it break $700? (Narrator: it closed at $780) This is what it looks like: Previously, on Tesla: in August 2018 Musk twitted the now infamous ‘funding secured’, announcing Read more
I lived in Switzerland for four years. I do not want to bother you on how the pension system is designed there, is quite similar to UK and very different from Italy, but the short story is that I have some funds stuck there until I will be 65 (if Read more
This is the classic post that is more useful to the writer than the reader. Pondering and analysing investors mistakes but, more importantly, your mistakes is one of the most effective way of learning. Reading about someone else mistakes is…better than not knowing at all but I am not convinced Read more
Some days ago I stumbled on this post, enticed by its title. Finding the maximum rate at which you can withdraw from your savings without going broke is the Holy Grail of retirement planning: once you cracked that, and you know your target monthly expenditure, you can set a precise Read more
Last week I received a message from a fellow Italian expat telling me he was putting together a discussion group around f.i.r.e. because he thinks that in Italy the topic is not as mainstream as in other countries. While replying, the length of the message got so massive I realised Read more
Just came back visiting friends living in Doha, Qatar. That country is…weird. I lived four years in Geneva with my wife and my comment to her was: Switzerland: I am the calmest country in the worldQatar: hold my (super expensive) beer I stopped playing the game “the place where I Read more
If you are reading this blog, you would probably already know: couple of weeks ago all the major stock brokers in the US allowed their customers to trade stocks and ETFs for free. (personal note: I started this blog one month after my first daughter was born, I try to Read more