UNSTARTABLE
In Tyler Cowen’s book titled “The Complacent Class,” I found this… “…I see complacency – a general sense of satisfaction with the status quo – as an increasingly prominent phenomenon in American life. And I’ve coined the phrase the complacent class to describe the growing number of people in our society who accept, welcome, or…
John Jacob Astor’s Perpetual Money Machine & The Magic of “Self-Financing” Investments
In 2008, I read this biography on John Jacob Astor. I went on to write the following article included below about what I learned from Astor in a newsletter to all of my clients. Little did I know at the time one of the ideas I learned in this book would stay with me. The…
Rebel Without A Crew
Robert Rodriquez is a filmmaker who has wrote and produced many movies including Spy Kids, Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, and more. He began making short movies as a kid for fun and ended up turning his passion into his life’s work. My interest in Rodriquez initially came because my daughter is a beginning filmmaker…
How You Can Live Like Andrew Carnegie Lived
This week I’ve been digging through some old newsletters I wrote when I owned my real estate brokerage. Each month, I published an extensive newsletter highlighting investments I was making, lessons I had learned, and insights from books I read. I’ve actually been kicking around the idea of starting a similar newsletter now. I came…
How to Get 40%+ Off the Cost of College <-- (Download this Book)
As you probably know from other posts, I have a daughter headed to college next year. I’ve written about our plan to use real estate to pay for college previously. You track a few of these posts down here and here. I’ve been studying the cost of college, the student loan crises, and different strategies…
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