The Million Portfolio exceeds 100% profitability
The million portfolio surpasses +100% profitability and reaffirms its trajectory toward the goal. The “million portfolio” dates back to when it all began.
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Investing is like doing an Ironman: reaching your pace is also a triumph.
This post about the Ironman concludes the series of articles where we have been searching for and finding connections between various sports: swimming, cycling, marathon, and investing.
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Investing is like running a marathon: resilience, pace and the goal.
With this article, we continue our series dedicated to drawing analogies between investing and sports. In previous posts we first talked about swimming and then about cycling.
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Investing is like cycling: equipment, strategy, and endurance
Cycling is a sport that blends power, technique, and tactical vision. In stage races, as in investing, you don’t usually win with a sprint, but with consistency, planning, and surrounding yourself with the right people.
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Investing is like swimming: technique, control, and mental strength
Summer is a time when we usually spend more time outdoors.
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The finances of an electric car: real-life analysis and personal reflections
With this article, we’re launching a new section on personal finance, exploring financial concepts through everyday situations.
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What does the U.S. credit downgrade mean?
U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade On May 16, 2025, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ long-term credit rating from Aaa to Aa1, maintaining a stable outlook.
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Macroeconomic context, tariffs, reality, perception, and bull traps
Pause in the tariff war. China and the United States have agreed to a three-month truce in their trade dispute, and the effect on financial markets has been galvanizing. You can read about the reduction in US tariffs to 30% from 145% here and here. In the long run, neither side seems to have made…
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The bias of the immediate and the myths that fall: do not trust what you have experienced recently
The availability bias (see appendix), described by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1973, explains that we tend to overvalue recent or easily remembered events, confusing their ease of recall with their actual probability. To avoid technical jargon and anglicisms, I call it the recency bias. Basically, we think that what happened recently is the…
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Stock market sales (2025)?
Sharp falls in major stock indices This is the most common way we would continue to communicate regarding the recent stock market crashes caused by the tariff war initiated by Trump. As we see in the image above, the Nasdaq 100 has fallen by nearly 20%, the S&P 500 by 15%, and the Stoxx Europe…
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