Late last night, I arrived back in New Jersey after spending the last few days at the inaugural Wealth/Stack conference out in Scottsdale, AZ. The conference was a great time, and I’m sure there will be plenty of awesome recap posts to read soon. I want to share a quick story from Tuesday morning. Dan…
bias blindness
Well, Technically
Do you remember learning about fungibility in Econ 101? It’s the idea that a good or asset can be interchanged with another similar good or asset. The part we didn’t learn about is when this is technically true, but pragmatically irrelevant. Enter behavioral economics. One of the first behavioral economics ideas I understood was the…
The Investor’s High
To borrow the framework of a famous Dorothy Parker quote: I hate running, but I love having run. This mentality embodies a phenomenon many refer to as a “runner’s high”. A runner’s high is the euphoric feeling experienced after a long run. As a runner, that feeling of general contentment and well being is a…
A Mirror Onto Ourselves
“Behavioral finance is not the study of how ‘other’ people behave. It is the study of how we all behave. It is not just a window onto the world; it is also a mirror onto ourselves.” The quote above is from the great Jason Zweig, one of my favorite writers and part of the inspiration…