Creating Focus

Regular people are watching the Super Bowl as this post is being written. We have no interest in the game since we didn’t see...

Goals Cause Depression

Many people have asked us to create another New Years post, but there is no reason to do so. New Years resolutions are likely...

Financial Samurai Paid up and What We Think Trump Does

Well we recently had the chance to cash in on our Trump bet with Sam from Financial Samurai. He’s a much nicer guy than...

Investment Banking Compensation 2016

We are updating compensation numbers for 2016. Excluded from this overview is investment banking analysts as the variability has not moved much. Simply put...

Soo… We Were Right. No Surprise!

We predicted that Donald Trump would win the presidency and here we are. Over a year ago we laid out large sums of money...

The Future of Wall Street

For those that are in the “know” Wall Street is currently going through a major restructuring. The new issuance market (IPOs) has cooled off...

Savings Rates Are Worthless and What Real Net Worth Is

All of our previous posts have focused entirely on earning. This is because there is no ceiling to the amount you can earn and...

Book Introduction – Efficiency

We polled readers for post topics. The same items came up over and over and over again: 1) money, 2) networking, 3) opportunities in the...

Physical Commodity Trading – Guest Post

***This post is courtesy of frequent commenter Houston Natural Gas Analyst*** Physical Commodity Trading 101 The physical commodities trading space is a particularly niche segment of...

Calculating Individual Total Worth

We know the standard “net worth” equation. Total assets – Total Liabilities = Net worth. Unfortunately this equation makes no sense at all and should...