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Nobody Knows Anything, Kentucky Derby Edition | No, America Is Not Collapsing | How Good Are You at Detecting Bullshit? Take Our Test | The Key to a Good Parent-Child Relationship? Low Expectations. | How to Know When to Stop

A “Bear Market” is usually defined as the condition in which the price of a market falls – on a closing basis – 20% (or more) from recent highs amid widespread negative investor sentiment. Your answer to the question, “Are we in a Bear Market?” will depend on what “market” you are considering.

How To Make New Friends as An Adult—And Keep Them | The Mental Health Consequences of Staring at Yourself on Zoom All Day | Bitcoin Is Not an Investment — I’m Glad I Sold It | Why I Walk | 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards

This is the working title of my 2nd book. It is based on my 40 years investing in stocks, 25 years in options, 20 years in real estate, and 15 years in private markets. If there is a tool that could be invested in, I have invested in it. At the end, I choose to invest 90% of my own and my family's investable assets in the simplest way possible.

Why The Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid | The Evolution of Trust | Scepticism As a Way of Life | Heart of a Tiger | How Strong Is Your Sense of Purpose in Life?

The Pyramid of Leisure | This Is How To Make Emotionally Intelligent Friendships: 2 Secrets From Research | The Man You Should Be Reading | Money Can Buy Happiness (In Variable and Diminishing Quantities) | Drone Footage Shows Everything Going On Inside Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory | Zooming into the Sun with Solar Orbiter

“Jonathan, how are your portfolios performing?” This is the question we get most often (especially from non-clients). In my opinion, the one discussion point that matters LEAST in building a lifetime of positive financial outcomes is your portfolio’s current performance. This belief is profoundly counter-cultural.

The Flood of '72: Fifty Years Later Podcast | Being Present | Mary Oliver: “I Got Saved by the Beauty of The World” | The Last Time | The Current Thing

Brett Swarts of the Capital Gains Tax Solution Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe, author of Mindful Money on "Unlocking Your Money Mindfulness."

Mapped: Global Happiness Levels in 2022 | 2022 World Happiness Report | Putin and Xi Exposed the Great Illusion of Capitalism | Young Women Are Out-Earning Young Men in Several U.S. Cities | Five Things I Know About Investing

In the coming weeks, it is likely that "Recession" will take over the media conversation. Some combination of war, oil price spike, and inverted yield curve will come to be seen as natural predictors. Given current and potential headlines… what should we (goal-focused and planning-driven investors) be doing in our portfolios?

How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany | The Case for Vanguard | Simple Heresy | I Am a Meme Now — And So Are You | Opinion: I Read a Week’s Worth of Newspapers from 1921. It Was Comforting How Wrong They Were About What Mattered. | Why More Americans Than Ever are Starting Their Own Businesses

With so many people predicting, some of them will always get it right. The surprise is that when we look at active management, there are fewer who get it right than there should be based on the number of predictions and pure, random chance. The odds are stacked against the prediction of future relative performance.

How to Perform Well Under Pressure | Derek Sivers: Books I’ve Read | Everyone Gets Rejected. Here’s What Our Readers Learned from Their Toughest Ones. | How Much Americans Make

To my fellow Berkeleyans and other Bay Area residents, the headlines about the decline of American democracy are getting downright scary. I have begun to hear questions about how this might affect the economy and markets. It’s probably a good time to return to our Guiding Principles – something we do every January anyway.

Striking Findings From 2021 | Weepings and Gnashings of Teeth | This Is The #1 Ritual You Need To Do Every Day | A New Era for The American Worker | How Mo Salah Became the New King of Football

“The question pounds my head, ‘What’s a Lifetime of achievement? If I pushed you to the edge, but you were too polite to leave me." I can’t get the lyric out of my head. As I grow and age, it's a good thing that new realizations lead to change.

Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone. | Global Wealth Inequality: The Rise of Multimillionaires | The Desert Within | 100 Ways to Slightly Improve Your Life Without Really Trying | Cathie Wood’s Rollercoaster Performance Offers A Familiar Lesson About Volatility

The latest employment numbers were worse than expected… but that didn’t stop the aggregate unemployment numbers from falling below 4% for the first time since the beginning the pandemic. And the year just past, we saw almost 6.5 million jobs created - the most jobs ever created in a single year.

Insights from “The Matter with Things” | The Importance of Price Signals | The 10 Best Data Visualizations of 2021 | 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2021 | The Better Letter: Forecasting Follies