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What a time to be in the markets
Today was a bad day for smallcaps. The Nifty Smallcap 250 index was down by 2.59%. No, this isn’t a post about “smallcaps are risky”. Although, I don’t who reads this thing, but I’ll say it – smallcaps are super risky. DSP Smallcap Fund was down 65% at the depths of the 2008 bear market. […]
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A few good reads
It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water? Private Equity: Is There Anything Special There? The Impact of Intangibles on Base Rates The five most revealing numbers in the Robinhood IPO prospectus
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Miser and miserable
On balance, the personal finance bloggers and the gurus have done a lot to educate people. But sometimes, it feels like they undo a lot of that work with ridiculous nonsense that they preach. If you listen to some of these people, you’ll learn that you’re ruining your retirement just by drinking a cup of […]
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Never better or getting worse?
If you listen to Steven Pinker, he’ll tell you the world has never been a better place: Some graphs track increases in good things: income, longevity, sustenance, safety, literacy, democracy, civil rights, leisure and happiness. Others show declines in bad things: poverty, infant mortality, famine, state-sponsored torture, capital punishment, war, homicides, lynchings and racist attitudes. […]
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Work from home: good, bad, or ugly?
There was a lot of chatter about work from home last week. A lot of these were the same old debates about whether work from home is good or bad. Is work from home increasing productivity or hurting it?
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Trillion dollar problems
Microsoft hit $2 trillion in marketcap a few days ago. There was a time when a trillion meant something, but it doesn’t seem so anymore. Microsoft and Apple now are worth over $2 trillion. It’s a silly comparison, but for context, the market cap of all listed companies on NSE is a little over $3 […]
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Hello, world!
Yay! I am now another pretentious idiot on the internet with a blog. The reason why I started this blog is I love writing and learning about things, but I am too lazy.