Michael Batnick has a great post outlining the best books a young investor should read. The next generation of investors is going to have more yoots. Ali Hamed is one of them and he joins me today on the ‘Panic With Friends’ podcast. You can list to the episode here on Spotify or on Apple …

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I took a day off writing on the blog yesterday just to recharge and break things up. I may start to just post six days a week as I get busier in the fall. Onwards… I was feeling a little nostalgic a few weeks back and went to look over on YouTube for old Wallstrip …

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I am 55 years old tomorrow. All of yesterday I thought my birthday was today. Pathetic…I know. I am excited to turn my calendar this year. I had a great year but it was the first one that left me helpless in a hospital bed for a couple weeks. It gave me the perspective almost …

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The Fintech boom (at least for instividuals/retail) has come a LONG way since 2006 and the days of Etrade, Yahoo Finance and CNBC. Way back in 2006, I was all in on Wallstrip to leverage the video network boom started by Youtube. I was at CBS post Wallstrip acquisition when the bug hit me to …

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As a reminder, Marketsmith (by Investor’s Business Daily) is now a sponsor of the weekly show. All the charts you have been seeing in the videos and will continue to see are from Marketsmith. They are offering my readers a three week trial for $19.95. Click this link if you would like to try it …

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I’m going to take it easy today. In that spirit, here are some good reads I enjoyed this week: This week Snowflake goes public. You will hear about it endlessly. You might as well know what the company does. Morgan Housel’s ‘Save Like A Pessimist, Invest Like an Optimist‘ is a good one. I liked …

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Yesterday I talked about mental health being in a crisis (here is an excellent piece on Mental Healthcare 3.0) but we are also in a period of extreme creativity. We are locked down and have time and all these wonderful new tools to create, edit and distribute to everyone everywhere all the time. Unfortunately, this …

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I have been meaning to talk about mental health for a while. I saw this chart of COVID cases in France tonight and it screams ‘we are not close to getting back to a pre-COVID world or economy’… The economic crisis and the mental health crisis is not just going to magically disappear. I had …

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I have been patiently chasing down Jason Robins for my podcast because I love the brand, the incredible struggle and the opportunity ahead for the company (I do own a few shares). We met way back in 2013 and I am friends with many people at the company which we discuss a bit in today’s …

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