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Tag: Work

A Working Narrative

The future of remote work after the pandemic ends has been a part of the zeitgeist for more than a year. Now it IS the zeitgeist. It is also a narra…
Rusty Guinn June 7, 2021
12 Comments

A Tiger Can’t Change Its Stripes

What do you get when you give a raccoon billions of dollars AND invisibility from regulators? Collusion and insider trading.
Ben Hunt March 30, 2021
32 Comments

Hammers and Nails

When we talk about bias, we usually think about a political bias. But the world of 2021 now supports persistent idiosyncratic biases and frames throug…
Rusty Guinn February 8, 2021
16 Comments

The Problem with Brussels Sprouts

Some things are only palatable when they have been transformed into a cartoonish version of themselves. For financial professionals that raises a mora…
Rusty Guinn July 17, 2019
17 Comments

The Half-Happy Horror

The Half-Happy Horror is the realization that pursuit of multiple objectives can end up with a baby split in two. At best we give lip service to sec…
Rusty Guinn June 21, 2019
2 Comments

A Modern Vocational Curriculum

So if you COULD prepare most Americans for their jobs and lives in less than a year, how WOULD you? Well, we took a shot at answering just that, and I…
Rusty Guinn June 20, 2019
21 Comments

Starry Eyes and Starry Skies

The student loan crisis is a Big Deal. And it is only a part of a Bigger Deal: the Myth of College. This issue will be front-and-center in the upcom…
Rusty Guinn April 29, 2019
14 Comments

How to Live Safely in a Wall Street Universe

It's the most valuable lesson I've got for any smart, young coyote embarking on a career in the Mob or in Wall Street: never ask for a cut on an exist…
Ben Hunt March 31, 2019
7 Comments

Good Luck!

Ben has already talked about the biggest and most important thing we can do in the face of the admissions bribery scandal. But many remain convinced…
Rusty Guinn March 18, 2019
4 Comments

The Ministry of Rites and the Compassionate Man

"Oh, little Jimmy is going to 20-Years-Ago-This-Was-A-Second-Rate-University? I hear really good things about that school. Congratulations!" "Thanks!…
Ben Hunt March 17, 2019
14 Comments

In Praise of Work

The problem isn't that we derive too much of our worth and value from work. The problem is that our jobs are becoming increasingly abstracted from wor…
Rusty Guinn March 1, 2019
19 Comments

What Gang Aft Agley

We asset owners and allocators (rightfully) obsess about alignment, but too often that obsession becomes an outward one, motivated by our rights and e…
Rusty Guinn January 19, 2019
1 Comment

Oh, hell, Martha, go ahead and burn yourself if you want to.

I can't advise you on the Answers. I won't advise you on the Answers. But I will advise you on the Process. Because that's what we do for our fellow p…
Ben Hunt October 29, 2018
9 Comments

O God, Make Me Humble

We have built industry standards around minimizing the appearance of risk. As a result, we now have an epidemic of ability-signaling, when what we rea…
Rusty Guinn October 22, 2018
9 Comments

We Were Soldiers Once … And Young

Two emails from soldiers, both asking questions that I can't answer alone. We need a pack.
Ben Hunt October 13, 2018
36 Comments
Lehman Brothers sign being carried to auction.

Lehman and the Meta-Game of Trading

Everyone has their Lehman war stories. Everyone at least in their 30s, anyway. Here’s one of mine that was particularly formative for Epsilon Theory…
Ben Hunt September 15, 2018
0 Comments
Colin Kaepernick

Controlling Your Cartoon: Nike and the Art of the Meme

The key to political and commercial success in a widening gyre? Controlling your own cartoon. In other words: if you don’t tell your own story, some…
Ben Hunt September 10, 2018
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