Today I announced that I am a candidate for the Idaho House of Representatives in District 21, seat A. Redistricting left my new district in Meridian with two open seats. So I have decided that I will put my best foot forward and try to serve our great state. There is a long road and […]
This is the third part of my series on the Master’s Degree program I went through at Harvard. Here are links to part one and part two. In the fall of 2019, I took an Active Portfolio Management class as part of the Master’s Degree in Finance program from the Harvard Extension School. It was […]
I wrote a glowing review of the Harvard Extension school after my recent graduation from the Master’s Program after two years of studying finance at the unique institution. It is, without doubt, the best dollar-for-dollar university program available right now that anyone can access. But as I also alluded to in that article, it is […]
On August 7th, 2020 at about 10am I signed on to the Canvas course software, spent a little more than an hour taking a final exam about real estate investment, and then signed off for the last time. Over the last year and a half, I had done something very impressive in most people’s estimation: […]
To tell this story properly, we need to go back to May 2019. Forget about GameStop’s unprecedented short squeeze driven rally in 2021. What was GameStop? A forgotten, supposedly dying company that was poised to be the next Blockbuster, with a stock that had lost more than 80% of its value in the last five […]
A few months ago, I happened to hear about the Grand Slam peaks around Boise. Four peaks that are all within an hour of Boise and burn off early enough for spring hiking, they are all popular destinations for local hikers. I had previously summited Shaw Mountain many times as a favorite training hike for […]
The S&P 500 fell 7.6% today, coming within a single percentage point of bear market territory after two weeks of high volatility brought on by the Coronavirus outbreak. It’s very understandable why people are panicking right now. If you had $100,000 in the market a few weeks ago, you’ve lost about $19,000 in just a […]
