A list of Resources for Economics Data.

General References

• MarketWatch economic reporting calendar [Link]
• MacroMicro.me charts (e.g. [FINRA Margin Debt])
• Our World in Data [Link]
• Core Econ Curriculum [Link]
• Bloomberg
• NBER
• BEA
• BLS
• TradingEconomics
• World Bank Link
• IMF Link World Economic Outlook Databases
• OECD Link
• Census Bureau Link
• Harvard Atlas Growth Lab Link
• UN Link
• USDA Link
• Cal State Econ Data List: Link
• Columbia Data List: Link
• Collins Dwight Blog: 140 best websites for economics data
• The Economist Link
• Economics Inelligence Unit Link
• MacroTrends Link

Assorted Finance Tips

Keeping with my tradition of compiling together random finance conepts that college- and post-college students should somewhat learn about, I’m dropping this list here. I’ll likely move it later, but this is a good finance/econ temp spot for my random musings. The internet suggests “behave like the rich to get rich.” That applies to managing an asset portfolio, not flaundering your wealth. This is not financial advice, but a small list of topics I’ve learned over time. Do your research.

• DSCR Loan
• 529 Exchange (college savings accounts)
• 1031 Exchange (real estate)
• HSA triple tax advantage
• $250k/500k home tax exclusion
• Supplementary leverage ratio
• When is Direct Indexing worth it? (see [Youtube short]
• Risk management through position sizing
• Rebalance your portfolio quarterly (or on some other schedule)
• Accredited investor rules (there are more select criteria above this, such as rules that apply only if you have a >$250M portfolio size)
• Rollover IRA. Backdoor Roth IRA.
• Watch your worst case. For example, for a loan your decision thresholds could be: 95% likelihood of losing no more than 25% of the investment borrowed, and 100% likelihood of losing no more than 50%. Thus even if you estimate the probabilities wrong, you know your maximal opportunity cost against the baseline (which is often doing nothing).

Recommended reading:

• Finance
  • Schwager. Market Wizards.
  • Reinhart and Rogoff. This Time is Different.
  • Ferguson. The Ascent of Money.
  • Griffin. The Creature from Jekyll Island.
  • King. The End of Alchemy.
  • Taleb. The Black Swan; Anifragile; Skin in the Game.
  • Ahamed. Lords of Finace.
  • Alden. Broken Money.
  • Kohler. How They Get You.
• Political Science
  • Haass. The World.
  • Dalio. The Changing World Order. How Countries Go Broke.
  • Acemoglu and Robinson. Why Nations Fail.
  • Graetz and Shpiro. The Wolf at the Door.
  • Rothstein. The Color of Law.
  • Zinn. Peoples’ History of the US.
  • Levitsky and Ziblatt. How Democracies Die.
• Marketing and Behavior
  • Cialdini. Influence.
  • Bernays. Porpogranda.
  • Kahneman. Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Zuboff. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
• Newletters:
  • Lyn Alden
  • Nicholas Crown
  • Heresy Financial
  • Rebel Capitalist
  • Eurodollar University
• Reference and Other Recommendations:
  • Graeber. Debt: The First 5000 years.
  • Piketty, T. Capital in the 21st Century.
  • Malkiel. A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
• Life Advice
  • Carnegie. How to Win Friends and Influence Poeple.
  • Peterson. 12 Rules for Life.
  • Pollard. The Introverts’ Edge.
  • Covey. 7 Habbits of Highly Effective People.
  • Manson. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.
  • Clear. Atomic Habits.
  • Meadows. Thinking in Systems.
  • For your 20s:
    • Jay. The Defining Decade.
    • Levine and Heller. Attached.
  • Kaufman. Transcend.
  • Peck. The Road Less Traveled.
• Business
  • Hormozi. $100M Leads.
  • Willink and Babin. Extreme Ownership.
  • Masters and Thiel. From Zero to One.
  • David. Your Next Five Moves.
  • Kaufman. The Personal MBA.
  • Greene. 48 Laws of Power.