Money. 1 essay and 5 notes.

I woke up to the news that the great Perry Mehrling has passed away. He was 67. I was shocked. It feels unfair that all the cool and awesome people keep getting taken away while assholes still roam free on Earth. Perry was brilliant. A lot of what I understand about global macro, the dollar and the global financial…

Money may not make you happy, but it makes you free.

Loose reflection. Since I work in finance, and since my area of focus is around investing and personal finance more broadly, a lot of people—friends, relatives, colleagues—ask me for advice on various aspects of their finances. And in all of this, the one big recurring theme I’ve noticed time and again is that people…

A few thoughts on people doing dumb shit with money.

This is good financial advice from Ross Barkan: One complication of the n+1 listing is not so much the salary itself but the sheer number of responsibilities. A managing editor must oversee all three print issues, supervise fact-checking and proofreading, serve as “product manager” for n+1 Books, plan and execute…