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…
Concerned About Market Concentration and Lofty Valuations? Consider Small Caps
If you are wringing your hands over large-cap stocks due to high market concentration and lofty valuations, allocating to small-cap stocks may give you some peace of mind. Beyond concentration…
What Is Systems Thinking? A Primer with Applications for Sustainable Investing
Dynamic and “emergent” complex systems.1 can be found everywhere from ecosystems to economies to our underlying biology. By striving to understand the way these systems work, we can make sense…
We’re On The Move – Ruth Crilly
If you subscribe to my blog posts by email then you might notice something slightly different about the next one, arriving tomorrow: it’s being sent by a new provider. There’s…
