I’m skipping around the alphabet and sliding around the world to land on Uganda and the book Kintu, a novel by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. It’s a multigenerational story about a curse released in 1750. Kintu Kiddu’s descendants deal with its effects until the the novel’s conclusion, set in 2004. At the same time, it asks… [Read More]
During the pandemic, I continued to work on the Around the World project, although not always alphabetically. Reading books and watching movies are easier than writing up blog posts, so I seem further behind than I am. Anyway, here’s the entry for Iceland, which is a gorgeous country. It almost looks like a cold version… [Read More]
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just invent money? Whenever you were a little short of cash or wanted to make an extravagant purchase, you could solve a math problem and poof! The cash would show up. That’s how cryptocurrency started. It’s digital currency not backed by a hard asset or a government, literally… [Read More]
Chess Story , a 1941 novella by Austrian-Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, is set on board a ship traveling from New York to Buenos Aires during World War II. Several of the passengers are escaping Nazi-occupied territories, as Zweig himself did. One of the travelers is a Czech chess grandmaster. Several others want to see him… [Read More]
I’ve always wanted to go to Australia. Who knows if it is ever going to happen now. But I can tell you this much: I will not see Australia the way that Rupert Guinness did. In 2017, he joined a group of endurance cyclists on a trip across Australia’s southern coast. They started at Freemantle,… [Read More]
Hedge Funds for Dummies, 2e
My first book has been completely revised! Updated to reflect changing markets, accessible strategies through ETFs, and new potential due diligence pitfalls.
Day Trading for Dummies, 5e
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