We’re having a classic run on the banks – not necessarily something I thought I would never see happen, but it’s still equally surprising especially considering I was still an undergrad during the GFC so I wasn’t paying as close attention when it was unfolding. Just like any other bank, Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) takes …
After living and working in the US and Europe, the goal for living in Japan was to just dive deep into something different and push further outside of my comfort zone – trying to make the uncomfortable things become comfortable which is a theme to how I like to live my life. There’s so much …
After working with global teams, living in Europe, and constantly traveling to and reading about other world economies in the pursuit to become a truly global citizen, I quickly realized the significant impacts of US policies on other nations, especially our economic policies and the dominance of our dollar currency. The US dollar has been …
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With inflation tracking at the highest rate in the last 30+ years, it now has become something we actually have to talk about. We could always recite the dictionary definition of inflation, but for us “young” professionals, inflation was just that; a dictionary definition for when the supply of fiat currency surges and pushes prices …
Here’s what stuck out after I reflected on my first year as Head of Deal Flow for Newlin VC, a Seed/Series A fund headquartered in the US: 1) The best deal flow wins This may be obvious: If you don’t see the best deals you can’t invest in the best deals so it’s paramount that …
Can we talk about one of the most underserved areas of everyone’s educational journey? Personal finance – a theme which was partly woven within my earlier Gamestop post. Most of you probably heard the complaint that our education system lacking a high school course that teaches you the basics of money management such as savings, …
The first order of business for Marcia and I when we moved to the UK in September 2016 was to set up our UK bank accounts. Our US accounts were set up over the phone before we left the US but we had to complete our UK accounts in person when we arrived in London. …
I remember reading about Bitcoin in its early days back in 2011 while I was still in Pittsburgh and was drawn to its mystery. I enjoyed trying to understand something that most everyone else was also trying to understand and explain in simple English. And being a finance professional I was of course intrigued by …
SPAC has been the hottest investing acronym over the last year and the trend does not seem to be letting up. Special Purpose Acquisitions Company’s, or SPACs, which also go by “blank-check companies,” have been around for decades but recently have become sexier and more lucrative. At the core, SPACs are shell companies that raise …
As retail investors stormed the hedge fund castle and forced likely the most ridiculous run-up in a stock ever, my Dad asked, “What’s a GameStop?” I told him to think RadioShack or Blockbuster – i.e. dinosaur retail stores that quickly lost relevance and went bankrupt – but GameStop is for buying physical video games and …