This week MrRip, the person behind retireinprogress.com (and soon mr.rip?), invited me to join one of his Twitch live streams (in Italian). I am fairly new to this ‘game’ and do not fully know the proper etiquette to thank him for the opportunity, it was definitely a blast for me. Read more…
I have read numerous posts on the pros and cons of buying a second, vacation home and decided to write my own. My parents bought a chalet on the Italian Alps before I was born and it is probably the place in the world where I instantly feel the most Read more…
Religions are a bubble that will prove to be “worthless” John Paulson Religions are a fraud Paul Singer Would you believe the above quotes were real if the person said his judgement is based only on intrinsic value? What about this: As I dug into the actual underpinnings, it just Read more…
It’s amazing, for me, that after 25 years looking at this stuff I still manage to get surprised when I should not. I read about people that spend millions to buy a jpeg of a rock (and thousands to buy the meme of that rock) and others that will not Read more…
There are two categories of people in the world: the ones that love Packy McCormick and the ones that do not know Packy. Howard Marks (I think) said that good stock traders are optimist while good bond traders are pessimist. I happened to to be a bond trader as part Read more…
And for a period of time, it certainly seemed so. I was reading bloggers (yeah, not investors) making yearly returns of 11%, 12%, even more than that. I was asking myself why I was only cautiously deploying capital into p2p while people out there were making a killing. Then scams Read more…
My personal investment trifecta: passive income, uncorrelated to stock market, good topic at a party (once we will be able to go to one). A music royalties investment company, Hipgnosis Songs is the brainchild of Merck Mercuradis, former manager of Elton John, Guns Nā Roses and Morrissey; it was founded on Read more…
I first wrote about leverage more than one year ago, time flies! It was a good introduction at the concept and what were my initial thoughts. I am not sure how I will ‘develop’ this series of post, maybe one day there will be an entire section of the blog, Read more…
Last year I wrote a post about weird ETFs I own. I love these products, they allow you to take specific, sometimes exotic, exposures in a simple and cost effective manner (if you know what you are doing). When Michael & Ben in their Animal Spirit podcast interviewed the guy Read more…