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As someone that subscribes to the philosophy of value investing and wants a tax-efficient, set-it-and-forget-it long term savings vehicle, would it be reasonable to use Berkshire H…

That's like saying that investing in the S&P 500 is nonsense, because if it were so easy then everybody would be doing that, and nobody would buy bonds. The thing is, that there is…

I recently read an article that suggested that 3x leveraged ETFs (or even higher) make perfect sense as a long-term investment: http://www.ddnum.com/articles/leveragedETFsandDCA.ph…

It's kinda hard to create a world-class transactions system when the philosophy is that the bottleneck should be a below-average computer and internet connection.

2 bubbles supporting each other.

Yes, I assume that the core rules will not be changed, which requires an element of trust, making it more similar to FIAT currency than gold in that regard.

Personally, I'm not invested in Bitcoin or any other altcoin so please don't assume I'm biased, but theoretically Bitcoin could increase in value indefinitely. There will always be…

Of course nobody uses Bitcoin as money today. My question was purely hypothetical, in the case Bitcoin ever becomes a more attractive store-of-value or reserve asset than gold (may…

Bitcoin is without a doubt one of the scarcest assets in the universe, as its supply is completely insensitive to its demand. Is this extremely deflationary model, where the early …

For the vast majority of people Bitcoin in its current form provides a worse user experience than PayPal, VISA, etc.. because the fees are a lot higher and the transaction times ar…

The argument for gold is that it isn't 100% a speculative investment. According to Wikipedia( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold ) 50% of gold's use case is in making jewelry and 1…

Thanks for the suggestions. They seem interesting.

isn't that the question of what makes things go viral?

another relevant one: lockdowns cause more deaths because people don't have a job and are depressed. Edit: According to Elon Musk and others.

taking the anarchist's approach: if people are happier owning tusks and using the stock market as a casino than seeing elephants and having stable finances, let em do it.

To link it to the world of investing, other key factors that drive returns/risk of assets are value, size, quality, yield and volatility, besides momentum. It's a multi-variate equ…

Interesting read about feedback loops and self-fulfilling prophecies. However, the author made it sound as if "momentum" is the only thing that drives human behavior. While it's ce…