Finance for Dummies

Snapshot of the 2022 US Economy - How Did We Get Here?

The last few months have been loud with whispers of a recession, and even louder with rages of unaffordable costs of living and...

What is Adaptive Market Hypothesis?

AMH as presented by Professor Andrew Lo at MIT Sloan, suggests a unifying theory between the EMH and the more recent wave that is...

What is Behavioral Finance?

Upon the advent of prospect theory by two psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1979), the world of economics and finance has...

What are Inflation Hedged Securities?

Inflation is the general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy. In other words, inflation can be described as the...

What is the Modern Portfolio Theory?

Beginning with Harry Markowitz’s essay: Portfolio Selection (1952) published in the Journal of Finance, the modern portfolio theory (MPT)...

What is the Efficient Market Hypothesis?

Since Eugene Fama’s “Efficient Capital Markets” (1970), the world of Financial Economics has been in constant debate over the Efficient...

What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is the father of all cryptocurrency that was first introduced in an anonymously published white paper under the alias Satoshi...

What is Finance (Feh-Nance)?

Feh-Nance: The academic pronunciation of Finance. Finance is the application of economic theory on the study of the flow and management...