Below you'll find a list of all posts from March, 2015
I’m a last minute tax guy, so this post is probably late, but I thought I would share a review of the software I use for taxes. I know Turbotax (affiliate link) has had a tough PR year and certainly didn’t do themselves any favors. Not clearly spelling out the price increase for anyone with more complicated taxes, prior to them completely …
My favorite chart.
I recently read a Wired profile on Matt Malone. This guy is not your typical dumpster diver. He’s highly educated and makes a six figure salary. Apparently Best Buy’s, Office Depot’s and other big boxes are incredibly wasteful and just toss out tons of perfect (or near perfect) condition items of all shapes, sizes and values. “If he were to …
I’m a great fan of Oliver Sacks. If you don’t know him, he’s probably the most famous neurologist alive and written dozens of amazing books. From NY Mag: “Sacks has now spent 50 years attending to patients damaged in ways that make it difficult for others, even doctors, to acknowledge their full personhood—those with Tourette’s, Asperger’s, the deaf, the blind, the …
I haven’t talked about it much on the blog, but I recently made a career move and jumped ship to a new E&P. If you want the details you can easily look me up on linkedin. Hopefully it turns out to be a good move for my career. In the meantime, I thought I could talk a bit about what …
Goldman, like all the other major banks, came out with an interesting infographic on Millennials. I usually hate the Millennial generalizations. I tend to find them to be incredibly lazy in their thinking and the stereotypes teach nothing. However the Goldman version had a lot of interesting data, combined with a very slick interface. I recommend checking it out. I …
Living standards now and then (Cato) Lessons from Berkshire letters (Philly Value) The Warren Buffett Formula to be Smarter (The Week) Gen Y wants Fin Ind not Retire (Time) AB-Inbev disappoints on sales, starts $1B buyback (Bloomberg) Passive vs. Active and Smart Beta (Millenial Invest) – very clear thinking as usual Target has a new CEO (Fortune) Meet Silvercar the future …
Since this is a week for Buffett and Berkshire, now seemed like a good time to revisit the famous bet that Warren made with Ted Seides, CFA, and President / Co-CIO of Protégé Partners on who would win over 10 years – the S&P or a selection of 5 fund of funds chose by Protégé. The S&P has crushed them the past 7 years. …
21 year old millionaire doesn’t blow his money. Instead he spends his time enjoying the great outdoors, traveling, and having authentic experiences up and down the coast, living in his awesome van. You don’t hear that headline every day. Daniel Morris snagged a $2M singing bonus (don’t we all wish!) and has chosen to live in 1978 Volkswagon, doing what …
One of my favorite annual publications came out today, the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter! Yet again Berkshire had a killer year. Berkshire’s gain in net worth during 2014 was $18.3 billion, which increased the per-share book value of both our Class A and Class B stock by 8.3%. Over the last 50 years (that is, since present management took …