These Are the Goods

Articles

 My definition of luxury has changed over the past few decades (By Christine Benz)

The index mindset favors average results over extreme ones (By Bob Seawright)

I never expected HTM and AFS to come back into vogue, but here we are. (By Scuttleblurb)

We have a substantial Fed failure on our hands (By Skanda Amarnath)

A decent rule of thumb is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes, and if you’re lucky your exchange is doing only process crimes. (By Matt Levine)

The FDIC’s deposit insurance fund paid for by member banks may lose $20 billion (By Julian Hebron)

Fear is more contagious than any virus, and can instantly push people to react in ways that would have seemed unthinkable a moment prior. (By Morgan Housel)

Being a financial advisor is the best career in the world (By Blair duQuesnay)

Podcasts

There’s a lot of different sides to what caused this (With me, Josh, and Jill Schlesinger)

Small banks cannot make money borrowing short and lending long (With Bankless and Arthur Hayes)

Some guy slept in the closet (With Bill Simmons, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck)


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