Let’s talk about why, just when you really want your investments to be spread out and safe, stocks around the world tend to start moving together anyway, and how gold steps in at those moments, not because it has some deep, magical value, but because it works like a kind of mathematical shock absorber for…
Imagine looking back over the past thirty years and running every possible combination of stocks and bonds, just to see which mix would have given you the best balance between risk and reward. That’s basically what a brute-force simulation does: it tries out all the options, one by one, to figure out which approach would…
Analysis of the April 17, 2026 market re-pricing, focusing on the 11% collapse in oil due to the Strait of Hormuz reopening and its impact on equities and crypto.
A macroeconomic history of the 1971 Nixon Shock and the collapse of Bretton Woods, explaining why the shift to Fiat made investing mandatory for survival.
An engineering analysis of how MSCI’s algorithmic Value and Growth classifications force unnecessary portfolio turnover and degrade long-term investor returns.
AI Software Engineer at Google | PhD in AI & Engineering | Writing about AI, Engineering, Investing, and Personal Finance.