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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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On Selling – Sell Solutions Not Features
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:48 AM EDT
The art of selling matters to the students, who either need to find a job after Codeup or who need to win support for their startup. I noticed a few things about the sales pitches during that first portfolio presentation.
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Book Review: A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Friday, September 12, 2014 3:07 PM EDT
First published forty years ago, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel is one of those books – much like Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor – more referred to than actually read.
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The Giffen Good Concept Applied To Investments
Monday, September 8, 2014 5:41 PM EDT
With ordinary, rational, economic behavior, we expect that when prices go up, people buy less, and when prices go down, people buy more. That's not the case with Giffen Goods which can include Bitcoin, management fees, even the stock market.
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Options Trading Part III – Delta Hedging
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 12:10 PM EDT
Do you want to go deeper down the options trading rabbit hole with me? Why not? Let’s hum a few more bars of the volatility tune to learn about what options traders actually do for a living.
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Real Estate And The Efficient Market Hypothesis
Monday, September 1, 2014 4:30 PM EDT
“Dignowity Hill has so much charm and a ton of new investment activity nearby, with the Hays Street Bridge and Brewery, and prices will be going up.” Yup, probably.
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Options Trading Part II – The ‘Currency’ Of Options
Sunday, August 31, 2014 8:16 PM EDT
Professional options traders use a mathematical valuation called ‘volatility’ which your average retail options speculator does not even consider.
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Options Trading Part I – NFW Edition
Friday, August 29, 2014 5:20 PM EDT
Michael Taylor explains why he dislikes selling puts: "Put sellers are like the lone teenager in the horror movie who says 'Did you guys hear that noise? I’m just going to check that out with my dim flashlight, by myself. You guys stay here.'" Classic.
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Currency Exchange Thoughts
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 3:25 AM EDT
Back in the bad old days of travel, planning to exchange your currency mattered.
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Book Review: How To Avoid Financial Tangles
Friday, August 15, 2014 4:16 PM EDT
If you ever read any novels by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, or Charles Dickens you quickly realize that the most important goal of 19th Century English life was securing – through a fortunate birth or a strategic marriage – a steady income based on the rents of private property.
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Video For Entrepreneurs – Personal Financial Statement
Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:53 AM EDT
A regional microlender named Accion Texas helps entrepreneurs get started on the process of building small businesses.
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TED Talk Video On Inequality From A Plutocrat
Thursday, August 14, 2014 4:03 AM EDT
I think we should talk about inequality far more than we do. Even if I do not agree with the speaker, I would like to engage in the dialogue with anyone who speaks intelligently about the topic.
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You Want To See Something Really Scary?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:30 AM EDT
Corporate pension-funding, analogous to long-term retirement planning or college funding for individuals, really comes down to small choices that we make today that have extraordinary consequences thirty years in the future.
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FICO Scores Change – Is Nothing Sacred?
Friday, August 8, 2014 10:32 AM EDT
Far be it for me to stand in the way of progress, but did a little part of you die when you read this morning that Fair Isaac Corp will slightly alter its FICO score formula to make it easier for people to get loans? Is nothing sacred?
In this article: FICO
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Video For Entrepreneurs: Tracking Startup Capital In A Spreadsheet
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:55 PM EDT
I periodically produce instructional videos for a local micro lender named Accion Texas. They support and lend to young and startup companies that might otherwise get overlooked by the traditional banking industry.
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The Davis Discipline – A Good Book And An Amazing Life
Friday, August 1, 2014 3:29 PM EDT
The Banker recommends reading John Rothchild's "The Davis Discipline." Learn about how Shelby M.C. Davis accumulated extraordinary wealth. Never heard of Shelby M.C. Davis? Read on.
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My BBC NewsHour Commentary – On “Virtous Banking”
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:44 PM EDT
The analogy I wanted to use (but didn’t) is that if you replace ‘profit’ with something more virtuous it would be like telling a professional soccer team that the plan is no longer to score goals, but rather to ensure more passes between teammates.
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