Wow! I am blown away by what I just accomplished. After watching the video below by Nate Herk, I got the inspiration to setup my own AI Hermes agent and it’s amazing! What can an agent do? Well almost anything you give it permission to do on computing platforms but for me, the first few…
Memorial Day
On this solemn day, best wishes to everyone on Memorial Day.
New App: Black Scholes Analysis
When it comes to a toolbox, a good one typically has a hammer, pliers, a tape measure, a multi-bit screwdriver, a socket wrench set, a utility knife, and a cordless drill. When it comes to investments, what tools belong in your investment toolbox? I continue to build tools for my investment toolbox. My latest tool…
High Income ETFs
I continue to research the ever changing fabric of the investment world. Over the past few years a ton of new ETFs have come onto the market offering investments into just about every type of asset class known but as I near retirement, I am primarily interested in holding on to my money, generating income…
New App: Current Market Valuation
Do you know the most important thing about investing? For me, it’s not losing money! One of the websites I visit periodicially is www.currentmarketvaluation.com to check the status of the S&P 500 against various measures. I don’t subscribe to the service, I just look through the models and look at some of the standard deviations….
Why AI Will Dominate – Proof In The Pudding
Yesterday I wrote a post about how billionaires allocate their portfolio. I got the data from a screenshot I took on CNBC on my phone. I wanted to use and explore that data so I opened up LibreOffice Calc app and loaded the data to create a chart. Below is the crap LibreCalc created. I…
Billionaire Portfolio Allocations
Have you ever wondered where the ultra rich put their money? Well CNBC had a data chart. I grabbed a screenshot and had AI convert it to an infographic and explain the allocations. How does this compare to my portfolio? Well I definitely own equities, cash, other alts, fixed income, real estate and private real…
New AI Tax Calculator
Taxes are the bane of my existence and one of my pet projects is to use AI and build a tax optimization tool to lower or eliminate most of my taxes. As a starting point, I asked google’s gemini to build me a spreadsheet as a starting point. The first thing I wanted to do…
Money Perspectives: работа (rabota) and труд (trud)
I had intended on starting a series on money perspectives from different cultures. I wrote a post here and here to get started then I had so many other topics and then AI came into the picture that I had forgotten all about it until I came across an interesting Reddit post on retirement dysfunction….
The Schengen Shuffle
I had hoped to retire by now but the current global situation has me continuing to work. There is no point in retiring if the world doesn’t have fuel to fly planes, trains or automobiles. I don’t want to retire and just sit at home. The whole point of retiring is to travel and explore…