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Canada's Getting a Sovereign Wealth Fund

Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced that Canada was getting a new sovereign wealth fund, and that individual Canadians will be able to invest in it. Today we'll dive into the details, and wh

Using Your Money To Be Happier

This is probably the most important video I’ll ever make. I hope it will change your life the same way that researching it changed mine. I used to think that working, saving, and investing were all ab

Canada's New Evidence-Based ETFs

Canada just got a new suite of ETFs that could change how a lot of Canadian investors build their portfolios. They have all the good aspects of index funds — low fees, low turnover, and broad diversif

Prediction Markets Are Ruining the Finance Industry

2:36 - Prediction Market Background 9:38 - Prediction Market problems 17:02 - The Promotions 21:50 - The Gamblification of Everything 24:23 - Closing thoughts Let's talk about prediction markets... DI

SpaceX and OpenAI: The Mega IPO Grift

Some massive companies are set to go public very soon. Private companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic would rank among the largest public companies if they went public, and index funds would be

This Paper Could Change How You Invest

A 1993 paper in the Journal of Financial Economics with nearly 15,000 citations today changed financial economics and portfolio management forever. Eugene Fama and Kenneth French found that a group of

The Problem with Private Markets

After many years of hiding behind mystique and illiquidity, private markets are being forced into the light. Private equity, private credit, and private real estate have been sold, hard, to investors

The Risk the War in Iran Poses to the Global Economy

00:00 - Intro 02:12 - Iran Primer 03:36 - Iran’s Oil 04:55 - The Strait of Hormuz 08:17 - Global Economic Impacts 11:11 - How This Impacts the US? 12:40 - What About Stocks? 13:17 - Final Consideratio

Renting vs. Buying a Home: The Reckoning

Canada is in the midst of what is (so far) the second-worst price decline for inflation-adjusted home prices going back to 1975. The worst was in the 1980’s with a peak to trough decline of 31%. Today