Ian Greer

In 2009, with the housing market in ruins, Congress devised a rescue: an $8,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers, fully refundable, meaning the government would cut a check even to someone who had never paid a dollar in taxes. The program was so loosely monitored that a four-

Most people never choose an asset. They inherit one. They buy the house because their parents bought a house, or the index fund because a coworker mentioned it, or the coin because a group chat did, and then they spend years defending a position they never actually selected. Every asset

The biggest risk in life is mediocrity. As Lord Baelish put it in Game of Thrones, "So many men risk so little. They spend their lives avoiding danger, and then they die." The word "risk" comes from the early Italian risicare, meaning "to dare."

A couple appears on Oprah Winfrey's show nine months into their marriage, and the relationship is already buckling. They'd charged their beach wedding in Mexico: hotel rooms, spa treatments, lobster and filet mignon for the guests, an open bar. The bill came to $50,000 in

In 1998, Yahoo! had the chance to buy Google for one million dollars. It passed. A year later, it spent $3.6 billion on GeoCities and $5.7 billion on Broadcast.com, two companies that would soon be worthless. In 2002, Google offered to sell itself to Yahoo! for $5

Jesse Livermore, the legendary stock trader of the early twentieth century, didn't just study charts and ticker tape. He read Freud, Jung, and Aristotle. He understood that markets are not driven by numbers alone but by fear, greed, and ego: the raw material of human nature. Politicians, investors,