The Investopher: Where markets meet philosophy

You scroll through books, podcasts, YouTube channels, Twitter threads, and newsletters, and everywhere you look, someone is showcasing a strategy that “worked.” Factor models that beat the market. Day traders posting winning days. Back tests that loo…

You build a model.  Test it.  Refine it.  Optimize it.  Validate it.  Trade it.  And for a moment, it feels like you’ve cracked something real, a piece of the market’s puzzle.  But then the regime shifts.  Volatility surges.  Liquidity dries up.  Corr…

You’ve read the books.  Watched the videos.  Listened to the podcasts. Back tested  the strategies.  Built the spreadsheets.  As if the entire future of your financial life hangs on one click.  As if certainty is required… before you act.  What if the…

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is condemned by the gods to push a heavy boulder up a hill for eternity, only for it to roll back down every time he nears the top.  It’s a story of repetition, frustration, and endless effort…  but also resilience, meanin…

At first glance, thrift sounds like a virtue.  Saving more, spending less, living prudently; what could be wrong with that? But in economics, John Maynard Keynes warned of a strange contradiction called the Paradox of Thrift : What’s wise for the ind…

In the 1950s, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a simple, unsettling question: If the universe is so vast and old, and intelligent life is possible, then… where is everybody? This became known as the Fermi Paradox;  the tension between high probability a…

Imagine this: e very decision you make... every trade, every rebalance, every moment of hesitation, you’ll be forced to live again. Not just once, but endlessly. Over and over. Forever. This is Nietzsche’s thought experiment of the Eternal Return :  …