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My name is Michael Taylor. I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score ...more
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Book Review: Scarcity By Sendhil Mullainathan And Eldar Shafir
Monday, December 16, 2019 2:03 AM EDT
One of the most intriguing branches of behavioral finance – described in "Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less And How It Defines our Lives" – suggests that our brains face an unfair fight under certain conditions.
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Improving Retirement, Reducing Aristocracy
Friday, August 16, 2019 10:04 AM EDT
The Democratic-controlled House passed The Setting Every Community Up For Retirement Enhancement and Savings (SECURE) Act in May 2019.
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Book Review: Fifty Inventions That Shaped The Modern Economy, By Tim Harford
Sunday, August 4, 2019 7:30 PM EDT
What gives Harford’s book extra philosophical texture is his eagerness to consider technological innovations for all their consequences – for both better and worse.
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Annuities Rant Part III – Moderating My Complaints
Monday, July 8, 2019 12:00 PM EDT
I spilled considerable ink this Spring bashing all manner of insurance products peddled as investment products. Now I will pull some of my punches and give a more moderated view of some annuity products.
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Annuities Rant Part II – Low Returns And High Fees
Thursday, July 4, 2019 3:42 AM EDT
Fixed rate annuities are the exception in that they do not charge high fees. In fact, generally, they don’t charge you any fees at all. Instead, they offer you very low returns.
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Book Review: Bad Blood By John Carreyrou
Monday, July 1, 2019 3:00 AM EDT
I recently finished the best business book I’ve read in the past year, John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies In a Silicon Valley Startup, about the rise and fraud of healthcare technology firm Theranos.
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Annuities Rant – On Complexity
Friday, June 28, 2019 4:24 PM EDT
Fixed rate annuities, fixed index annuities, variable annuities – how do I hate thee?
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Recap And Release Of The GSEs
Sunday, June 23, 2019 10:50 PM EDT
The US Treasury department, is reportedly wrestling with a plan for the re-capitalization and re-privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two entities at the center of the $10 trillion US mortgage bond market.
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Favorite New Investment: Music Royalties!
Saturday, May 25, 2019 2:18 PM EDT
I just made one of the neatest investments of my life and I’m dying to tell you about it.
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Book Review: Red Notice, By Bill Browder
Sunday, January 20, 2019 10:00 AM EDT
Red Notice has garnered a tremendous amount of attention since publication in 2015, but given the ongoing current events, it still feels like 95% of Americans aren’t aware of the true nature of the Russian state under Vladimir Putin.
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Bummer About All That Cash
Monday, January 7, 2019 10:17 AM EDT
The cannabis industry is one of the fastest growing in the US. But it is practically shut out of modern payment systems due to an unusual patchwork regulatory situation.
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Federal Reserve Independence
Sunday, November 18, 2018 4:11 PM EDT
When it comes to Federal Reserve policy, we need to focus our worries on the correct thing. Hint: It’s not inflation. Also, it’s not recession. Also, It’s not the rate of interest rate hikes.
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Book Review: Getting To Plan B By John Mullins And Randy Komisar
Sunday, August 19, 2018 5:33 AM EDT
Komisar and Mullins’ book may be read as a critique of the idea that startups should build an extensive “business plan,” because that plan will inevitably go wrong. Plan A – as their title implies – isn’t actually going to work.
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We All Want More Trust Fund Kids, Right?
Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:17 PM EDT
I went online recently to explore certain hard-core taboo subjects. I looked up words we don’t talk about in polite company. Certainly not in front of the children. Words like Trust Fund. Inheritance. Aristocracy.
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Age Of Entrepreneurship
Sunday, July 22, 2018 5:02 PM EDT
What’s the best age to start a successful company? A new research paper co-authored by researchers from MIT, Northwestern University, and the Census Bureau shows the surprising relationship between business startup success and the founder's age.
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Pass-Through Entity Taxation And New Tax Law
Sunday, April 15, 2018 3:51 PM EDT
This year we begin to react to changes in the tax reform law of December 2017. The point was to make the world safe for businesses and their owners, who received healthy tax cuts. If you weren't a business owner, the tax reform was not about you.
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