If there’s anything the readers of this website and the other websites in our network have learned, it’s that I’m willing to be politically incorrect if I think there’s a common myth that sounds good, but is really wrong. This means I’ll spend plenty of time criticizing mainstream economics, popular investing theories, and, every once [...]

Thirty years ago, if someone had amazing financial success (like paying off 60k in debt as a 20-something in less than 2 years), we’d probably never hear about it. In the Information Age, it’s all changed. My favorite thing about the Internet is that it connects you to real people and real success stories. One such [...]

Financial planners encourage most people to put nearly all of their portfolio into stocks when they’re younger, and to keep stocks the main focus of their portfolio for decades. This is just scary and a horribly unsafe way to invest. The argument is something along the lines of, “The stock market earns over 8% per [...]

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of The Permanent Portfolio. I believe that you shouldn’t try to time the market — even the gold market. You should buy something to hold on to it forever. This includes gold, silver, stocks, real estate, and everything else. That’s why I’ve just launched a brand new website [...]

It has been years since I last watched The Matrix, a lapse I corrected last night. As the movie makers intended, the film serves as stark metaphor of the world as we know it. Or, more appropriately, as we think we know it. If asked, the average citizen of these United States would describe their life [...]