Topic
Money, investing, markets and how the economy actually works.
Spørretimen Explained
The best-selling personal finance book of all time, and one of the most disputed. A walk through the ideas in Rich Dad Poor Dad – assets versus liabilities, cash flow, the rat race – and an honest look at what the criticism is about.
Investor Naval Ravikant's thinking on wealth, leverage and happiness, compiled by Eric Jorgenson. A walk through the ideas – specific knowledge, accountability, the four kinds of leverage – and what is problematic about reading success backwards.
The founder of the world's largest hedge fund on how he makes up his mind. A walk through the ideas in Ray Dalio's Principles – written rules, radical transparency, believability weighting – and how well they survive being taken out of Bridgewater.
Hundred-year-old advice on saving, debt and putting money to work, told as parables from Babylon. A walk through the seven cures in The Richest Man in Babylon – and which of them still hold.
The book Warren Buffett calls the best on investing, from 1949. A walk through the ideas in The Intelligent Investor – Mr. Market, the margin of safety, the difference between price and value – and what is worth carrying forward today.
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on the two ways the brain makes decisions, and the systematic errors that follow. A walk through the ideas in Thinking, Fast and Slow – and through which parts of the book have not held up.
Money is not a sum – it is behaviour. A walk through the ideas in Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money: luck and risk, compounding, why keeping money is harder than making it, and why freedom is the real return.
Why is it always the thing nobody saw coming that changes everything? A walk through the ideas in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan – Mediocristan and Extremistan, the turkey problem, the narrative fallacy – and what to actually do about it.
Social psychologist Robert Cialdini on the few mechanisms that make people say yes. A walk through the ideas in Influence – reciprocity, commitment, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity – and how to notice when they are being used on you.
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