Scrabble, Monkeys, and a Better Way of Passive Investing

Oxyphenbutazone is a non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug used mostly in eye-drops that was pulled from markets worldwide in the mid-1980’s for its link to bone marrow depression.  More interestingly, but perhaps just as trivial, Oxyphenbutazone represents the highest possible scoring play in Scrabble.  Play it across three triple word score squares and eight already-played, perfectly positioned [...]

The Dow is a Bad Accident of History

I was a recent college graduate and there I was on the trading desk of a large institutional investment manager, entrusted with a role well beyond the pay grade of a newly minted liberal arts history major.  Like many people in their first job out of college, my primary objective was not to make a [...]

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