Common Knee Problems and How to Address Them
Properly functioning, pain-free knees are vital for maintaining an active and independent lifestyle. Your knees play a critical role in providing mobility, stability and support for numerous daily activities, from…
Steve Blank Lean LaunchPad @Stanford 2024 – 8 Teams In, 8 Companies Out
This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching…
Hedge Funds: A Poor Choice for Most Long-Term Investors?
Hedge funds have become an integral part of institutional portfolio management. They constitute some 7% of public pension assets and 18% of large endowment assets. But are hedge funds beneficial…
Senior cannabis use: Increasing substance abuse disorders among Medicare beneficiaries
Older Americans aren’t just using cannabis more, they’re also consuming the sometimes-legal-sometimes-not drug in dangerous ways. From 2017 through 2022, rates of health care encounters involving cannabis-related disorders increased among…
Did Inflation Kill the CAPM?
Pim van Vliet, PhD, is the author of High Returns from Low Risk: A Remarkable Stock Market Paradox, with Jan de Koning. High inflation and expensive equities lead to a negative…
Steve Blank Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations
We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 60 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help…
Hindujas found guilty of exploiting servants at Geneva villa
Four members of the billionaire Hinduja family were found guilty of exploiting poorly paid servants at their Geneva villa, in a damning verdict for the Swiss branch of one of…
Hindujas found guilty of exploiting servants at Geneva villa
Four members of the billionaire Hinduja family were found guilty of exploiting poorly paid servants at their Geneva villa, in a damning verdict for the Swiss branch of one of…
Behavior of Crowds not Wisdom of Crowds
The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) says that active equity management is a waste of time. Because stock prices incorporate all relevant information, it is not possible to consistently beat the…
Is the Outright Ban on a US Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) a Mistake?
Last month, the US House of Representatives passed a bill banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC), heading warnings from the American Banking Association about…
