This piece is my magnum opus at the moment: People are What Matters, Actually

Some of my favorite pieces I’ve written –

• Ditch Your Car: Ridesharing is More Cost Effective
• Is GameStop a Bank? Modeling the Video Game Market
• Dating Data: An Overview of the Algorithm
• The Calculus Wars: The Power of People
• Do we need a recession?

Commodities

• Taking Some Sense to Make a Nickel
• Oil and the Federal Reserve
• Pricing Agriculture Risk | Interview with Grant Cavanaugh

Geopolitical Analysis

• The Great Balancing Act
• Evergrande: Tip of the Debt Iceberg
• Evergrande and Lots of Debt
• The China Crackdown
• A Brief Update on Russia and Ukraine
• Update on Russia and Ukraine
• Financial Warfare

Game Theory

• Why did Bernie Sanders Drop out of the Election? Lessons from Game Theory
• Chocolate, at Any Cost: The Price Elasticity of the Candy Industry
• Grim Trigger Strategy
• How do You Induce Cooperation?
• Infinite Games: Comparing the Combination of the Value of Defecting + Value of Loss
• Stacks of Cash

Crypto

• Crypto Regulation, Curators, and Semiconductors
• Owning the Online: What are NFTs?
• The Ownership Economy: Regulation and Penguins
• Break it DAOwn Now
• Exploring the Meaning of the Metaverse
• The Polarization of Crypto Narrative
• UST and USD: Everything is Monetary Policy

Market Analysis

• Roblox and the Creator Economy
• The Market as an Athlete: Periodization in Training
• Investing in Disruptors: Profitability in the Age of Monopolies
• A Basic Quantitative Analysis of the Foreign Exchange Market
• Governance through Decentralization on the Blockchain
• Asset/Liability Structure of Depository Institutions and Interest Rate Risk
• The Blaring Horn of Bonds
• Q&A: Wealth Concentration, the 1970s, and Stagflation

The Federal Reserve

• Irrational Idealism: Inflation and the Federal Reserve
• Dichotomy in the Golden Age of Fraud

Market Guides

• A Guide to the FOMC
• The Secret of Car Sales: The Science of Negotiation
• Digital vs Physical
• The Core: The Importance of Connectors
• Volmaggedon and the Rise of Passive
• Cambrian Explosion
• RRP Explainer
• Narratives, Reflexivity, and Market Go Down
• On Market Movement
• Food Insecurity and the Baby Formula Crisis

Statistics

• Probability vs. Possibility: Lottery Analysis in Quarantine
• The Cost of Love: Appraising The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Pizzmathematics: Which Pizza is Truly the Best?
• Fermata and Staccato: Does Music Predict the Stock Market?
• A Visualization: Correlation vs Causation
• The Nugget Numbers: How Much Chicken is in a Chicken Nugget?
• TikTok and Content Strategy: The Power of Creation
• Natural Language Processing and Naval: The Art of the Podcast
• The Bookstore to the App Store: What Our Apps Say About Us
• Statistics in One Slide
• The App That Knows You Better than You Know Yourself: An Analysis of the TikTok Algorithm
• How the Pandemic has Change the Premium of Living in a City
• Spotify Sentiment Analysis: The Joy of the Jam

Old Market Analysis

• What’s Turning the Markets: The Fed, China, and Debt
• The Roku Story
• American Tower
• Green Dot
• Uber
• Diving into 5G
• Costco
• Lyft
• Boeing
• Microsoft
• PG&E
• Altria
• Under Armour
• Eddie Lampert’s Biggest Failure: Sears and the Importance of Corporate Governance
• Emerging Markets
• EVHC
• Sector Rotation Theory

Market Philosophy

• The Federal Reserve’s Wager
• What’s Going On?
• Why Speculation Drives Markets
• Being Bullish Humanity
• The Divergence Between Expectations and Reality
• How Elon Musk Moves Markets
• Consumption on Demand
• Supply, Demand and the Saga of Stucky Bois
• The Debt Ceiling, Expectations, web3 and the Energy Crisis
• The Traffic Light
• The Disruption of Stability
• The F*ck Around and Find Out Quadrant
• Solutions are the Problem
• Why Money isn’t Real
• The Stonk Market

Startups

• Midwest Arbitrage: Capturing One of America’s Most Undervalued Assets
• Rising Tides: The Science of Salmon Investing

Social Commentary

• Memes as news: The Importance of Short-form content
• The Paradox of Societal Polarization: We are all Hedgefoxes
• The Economic Impact of Bees and the Role of Deceit
• Kyla, Not Kayla
• Seeing the clouds for the first time, again
• Bourgeois Virtues
• The Bare Minimum
• The Uncomfortable Uncertainty of the Unknown
• The Distortion and Disruption of Narratives

Other

• The Why Behind Writing
• We all love math. We just don’t know it
• The Reminder that we Are All Human
• The Art of Running a Good Race
• 50 miles later, I found myself

Options Trading

• How to Trade Alphabet (GOOG) Using Options
• Staying Neutral in GLD
• Trading Pork Bellies
• Trading Naked: How to Cover Your Assets
• Smart Money: the Poor Man’s Covered Call
• The Inverse Skew in Gold
• Delta and Theta: How to Manage your Risk
• Vega and Rho – the Forgotten Greeks