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P2P Lending Platforms: My Experience With Peer to Peer Lending
As our domestic stock market has become expensive, we continue to look for something better. One area HIT revisited in 2018 was the category of fixed income. The high-level overview [...]
Hurricane Harvey Mental Model Case Study With Regards to Purchases
When I first wrote about the mental model for purchases I did not imagine that my own personal case study would follow. But then again, who would have thought Hurricane [...]
DIY Investing Is The New Norm And Here’s 10 Reasons Why
The golden age of investing is here. The internet, discount brokerages, and free index funds have brought together a trifecta of investing bliss for DIY'ers. My savings journey started 12 [...]
The Mailbag: CAPE Ratio, Hard Money, and Bridge Loans
One of the many benefits of writing a blog is the challenge of organizing your thoughts and having them questioned. It’s initially scary to put it out there, but as [...]
16 Fixed Income Classes Ranked Based On Returns
I loaded up our HIT Investments fire box and got the research train rolling. Aggregating data from 14 fixed income classes, ranging from international high yield bonds to domestic short-term treasuries, was like shoveling coal: difficult, but necessary.
How The Illusion of Control Bias Impacts Investing
The illusion of control bias is the tendency for people to think that they have more control than apparent over events. It’s like wearing a rabbit’s foot to an exam [...]