Michael James on Money

A friend of mine likes to save money by ordering items in the U.S. and driving across the border to pick them up.  The trouble with his claim of having saved $50 on some order is that he ignores his car costs and the value of his time.  This mistake...

Like many people, I’ve been enjoying the good weather as much as possible lately.  As a result, I haven’t done much writing, so I thought I’d reflect on the effect the pandemic has had on the use of cash.
Understandably, people have been nervous about handling cash through the pandemic.  Many people stopped using it, and some retailers refused to take it.  I’m curious about what will happen as we come out of the pandemic....

As long as the pandemic feels like it has lasted, I’m amazed at how quickly we’ve reached the point we’re at today.  Early on, we hoped a vaccine would be ready by sometime in 2021, but maybe it would take longer.  Then once we had a vaccine ready, it...

Wouldn’t it be great if we could predict the future movements of stock markets so we could capture the gains and avoid the losses?  It turns out we can’t, but that doesn’t stop people from trying.
After a Twitter exchange with John De Goey, I ended up reading the article The Remarkable Accuracy of CAPE as a Predictor of Returns by Michael Finke.  He gives a chart that appears to show we can predict the coming decade of stock returns by calculating...