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Other questions we discussed were about buying bitcoin directly vs. the ETF (with help from Eric Balchunas), crypto vs. tech stocks, gas prices vs. recessions, and how to turn your investments into an investment plan.
1This was a few years after we graduated from college and had all just gotten married. None of us had families yet and we were just starting to buy our first houses.
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I had a big change in my reading habits this year — audiobooks.
I started listening to books on Audible a few months ago and I’m never going back. I’ll still read fiction on my Kindle but non-fiction audiobooks are a game-changer.
Can you still say you’ve read a book after listening to it? To be determined…
These were the best books I read in 2025:
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Breakneck by Dan Wang
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These are the recent maximum drawdowns for a handful of giant technology stocks:
Oracle -46%
Meta -25%
Netflix -30%
Nvidia -17%
Broadcom -21%
AMD -25%
Sans Netflix, these are some of the biggest names in the AI trade. This is what everyone has been worrying about for quite some time now.
What happens when the AI trade unwinds?
These companies are worth a combined ~$9 trillion in market cap. Surely the stock market is fa...
