Financial Geekery

As any statistician will tell you, just because there's randomness in the system doesn't mean we can't make plans around it. Mor

You've got stock worth a hefty chunk of change...but if you sell, you'll have to pay taxes on the sale. So: what do you do?

Imagine, if you will, navigating at sea in premodern times.

Monte Carlo simulations are one of the cornerstones of what I call "adaptive financial planning". The idea is to keep you on track

It was a scene straight out of The Graduate.

It's been a year since I wrote my post on bitcoin, and now I'm having similar conversations around marijuana. Apparently, some messa

Once you add another human being to the financial mix, things get an order of magnitude more complicated. Here are a couple of strategies th

We engineers tend to fall to a particularly pernicious form of overconfidence due to the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

As of this writing, the US yield curve has partially inverted. What does that mean? What should you do?

Your mortgage is almost certainly the single largest loan you will ever take on. Here are some things to keep in mind when doing your own an