Recently, through sheer happenstance, I flew business class on an overseas flight. What a revelation. I always knew business class was better, but I had no idea it was that much better. As I… Read More

Short post offering updates on two of my favorite topics.Subscribe nowLast year I wrote about Judge Judy’s high-stakes move to Amazon Prime. My argument was that Judge Judy’s mas… Read More

Welcome back to MoneyLemma! Today’s topic is probably the most commonly requested one by readers. People always want to talk about 401ks, credit card debt, and the lifetime earnings Ca… Read More

The proposed India Middle-East Transport Corridor (IMEC) is the most underreported story of 2023. The blood of the global economy is trade goods: untested cosmetics, ineffectual weight-loss… Read More

For years I’ve been a huge fan of SpaceX. The company’s ingenuity, its adventurous spirit, its bold and uncompromising desire to expand the frontiers of knowledge, plus alien/spa… Read More

The seed of today's post, from which all the chaos sprouts, is an idea: Christian Disney World. It is, commercially speaking, a really good idea. If there are two things Americans love, it's… Read More

Most investors are investing other people’s money. You might be wondering the same thing I wondered when the Weasley’s couldn’t afford to buy Ron a new robe for his first y… Read More

''Put her up against the top graduates of the top business schools or chief executives of the Fortune 500 and, assuming an even start with the same resources, she'd run rings around them'' … Read More

Investors perform alchemy: they create palaces of profit out of nothing but insight. Take venture capitalists. Startup connoisseurs, these backers scour the world for the next great corporat… Read More

“I can’t believe this place is still in business,” my friend is telling me. “It’s a complete shit-show. Layers of bureaucracy, incompetent people, nothing gets… Read More

It’s MoneyLemma Sunday! This post is about how much healthcare costs. Specifically, how much healthcare can cost in a worst case scenario. Subscribe nowAmerica is the greatest pla… Read More

The article was posted about a year ago, and wanted to repost for the holidays (Judge Judy is very festive) and also provide a quick update! The end of the original post questions whether Ju… Read More

A lot of new subscribers in the last few months, so re-sharing a popular old post from a few years ago. Happy Thanksgiving!You may have heard me mention the raw power of The Wiggles before… Read More

Shrinkage is growing. Yes, you heard me right. Shrinkage is growing! It’s reaching unprecedented levels. If you don’t know what shrinkage is - now is not the time to ask. Now is… Read More

The now iconic Spot the Dog Beanie Baby retailed for under $5 in 1993. By 1999 Beanie Babies cost $10. Did the cost to make a Beanie Baby double in the span of six years? Of course not. It&r&hell…Read More

MoneyLemma is widely considered [by this author] to be this century’s Dutch East India Company. That’s why we have a standing militia and an industrial warehouse of saltpeter. Do… Read More

Today, most organizations are centralized, meaning decision-making happens top-down:SourceEven the world’s democracies (really, republics) are centralized. People elect leaders, then t… Read More

Different isn’t differentiatedGreat businesses are differentiated. Not different - differentiated. Most corporate buzzwords are to communication what leeches are to healthcare, but the… Read More

Scale is uniquely human. Whatever humans do, they figure out how to do more of it, how to do it at scale. Any animal could inadvertently invent Tupperware™, but what other species woul… Read More

Welcome all new MoneyLemma subscribers! Last year MoneyLemma covered the Venture Capitalist art of building a unicorn. We looked back on scooter-sharing apps, Cirque du Soleil, and other com… Read More

Welcome back to MoneyLemma! Today’s post is about Islamic finance, which is a term for financial rules created in accordance with Sharia (Islam’s religious laws). Islamic finance… Read More

Welcome all new MoneyLemma subscribers! This week’s post comes in video form - it’s another collaboration with our favorite YouTuber Jason from Company Insights. Last month… Read More

Welcome all new MoneyLemma subscribers! Our numbers are growing, should we unionize?Share MoneyLemmaThis is the second of a two-part series on where all the money in the world is. Last week… Read More

Welcome all new MoneyLemma subscribers! We’ve added about 100 readers in the last two weeks (!) and would love to have more. If you’re digging MoneyLemma, please share this with… Read More

Welcome all new MoneyLemma subscribers! The goal of this week’s post is to apply investing concepts to fantasy football. What can picking stocks teach us about picking fantasy foo… Read More

Happy new year and welcome to all the new subscribers! MoneyLemma is kicking off the new year with e-commerce. What would our society look like if (or when) all retail shifts online?As alway… Read More

MoneyLemma launched in January 2021. I’m genuinely amazed that anybody took the time to read what I wrote, educate me, and share their stories. Nobody has even doxxed me, drudged up my… Read More

Welcome back to MoneyLemma! MoneyLemma is a free newsletter that comes out every other Sunday and covers the overlap between our money and our world. If you found us through The Sample then… Read More

Does anyone else remember Squanto? I thought I hallucinated learning about the friendly Native American who taught the Pilgrims how to plant maize and trace their hands to make paper turkeys… Read More

The year is 1938. Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman is in the lab, hunched over a petri dish, looking for a cure. A cure for what, he isn’t sure. He’s isolated a chemical compound cal… Read More

Welcome to MoneyLemma, a newsletter that explores the world through the lens of an investorFour countries have dominated automobile manufacturing for about as long as automobiles have been a… Read More

Immortality is a pursuit as old as civilization. To the ancient Greeks immortality meant renowned. Hit the world like a meteor, leave a crater so deep and wide that your name, your story, yo… Read More

Welcome to all new subscribers! This week’s post is on blockchain investing. It’s short but at the end I link to a guest post I did on Cryptechie that goes deeper on the topic. A… Read More

Welcome to all the new MoneyLemma subscribers!For this week’s post I put together an analysis on how the average US household spends their money. To do this, I dug deep into the US Bur… Read More

Welcome to all the new MoneyLemma subscribers! Super excited and encouraged to see more people signing up. If anyone has any feedback or wants a certain topic covered or wants to unload thei… Read More

My post for today is going up on on another blog called In Pursuit of Financial Freedom, which is written by Amanda Gisonni. She puts out great stuff on personal finance topics. I particular… Read More