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Money For the Rest of Us

J. David Stein
Money For the Rest of Us
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  • Money For the Rest of Us

    Five Practices That Have Shaped My Career

    2026/04/29 | 27 mins.
    I share five business practices that have carried me through asset bubbles, financial crises, business pivots, and now the rise of AI.
    Topics covered include:
    Recommended note-taking app and practices
    Recommended periodicals
    How to get better ideas
    Why we need to understand the probabilities when pursuing a new course
    The latest insights on AI, prediction markets, and other topics

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    Show Notes
    Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return. By Angelo Romasanta, Llewellyn D.W. Thomas and Natalia Levina—Harvard Business Review
    Paul Kedrosky
    Gregor Macdonald - Cold Eye Earth
    Prediction Market Accuracy: Crowd Wisdom or Informed Minority? By Roberto Gomez Cram, Yunhan Guo, Theis Ingerslev Jensen, and Howard Kung
    U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets—Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice
    64% of business books are profitable. That’s the bottom line from our study of Business Book ROI.—Josh Bernoff
    Libsyn Statistics, visualized—Livewire Labs
    The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload By Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith—The New York Times
    High earners race ahead on AI as workplace divide widens By Madhumita Murgia and John Burn-Murdoch—Financial Times
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  • Money For the Rest of Us

    Invitation to Our Live Portfolio Review and Rebalancing Special Webinar

    2026/04/22 | 3 mins.
    Please attend our live webinar on portfolio construction and rebalancing scheduled for Thursday, April 30th, at 12PM Eastern, 9AM Pacific time. I will cover the five steps to constructing and rebalancing a portfolio. I will also answer your questions.
    You can sign up for this special webinar at https://moneyfortherestofus.com/webinar/
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    There Is No Perfect Portfolio. Just Good Enough

    2026/04/15 | 27 mins.
    Why portfolio construction is messy, personal, and never perfect. We compare the pros and cons of several portfolio strategies, including target-date funds, risk parity, and role-based portfolios. We conclude with three AI-related fallacies that will help us better navigate the current moment.
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    Show Notes
    Money for the Rest of Us Live Portfolio Cohorts
    Why Everything Suddenly Is ‘Perfect’ by Paula Marantz Cohen—The Wall Street Journal
    Your Perfect Portfolio by Cullen Roche—Pan MacMillan
    My Core Investment Values by Peter Lazaroff—Peter Lazaroff
    Show Us Your Portfolio: Jared Dillian—Excess Returns: An Investing Podcast
    The dystopian fantasy of uselessness by Stephen Cane—The Financial Times

    Investments Mentioned
    State Street Bridgewater All Weather ETF (ALLW)
    RPAR Risk Parity ETF (RPAR)
    AQR Multi-Asset Fund (AQRIX)
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    491: The Five Layers of Investing
    306: Three Approaches to Asset Allocation
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  • Money For the Rest of Us

    A MFTROU Update, Cognitive Offloading Versus Cognitive Surrender, and Live Portfolio Cohorts

    2026/04/01 | 7 mins.
    In this mini episode, I share some examples of how I am using Claude Cowork and other tools to boost my productivity and build investment portfolio analysis tools. I also share more details on the live portfolio cohorts we will be holding next month.
    You can learn more about our live portfolio cohorts here.
    Show Notes
    I Saw Something New in San Francisco - Ezra Klein - New York Times

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  • Money For the Rest of Us

    Is Another Great Financial Crisis Coming? 5 Ways to Prepare

    2026/03/25 | 27 mins.
    How the Iran conflict and other developments could lead to another major financial crisis. What is different today from 2008? Why trying to seed a revolution is so risky. And finally, what can we do to prepare ourselves for the next financial crisis?
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    Show Notes
    Read Trump's full statement on Iran attacks—PBS News
    I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse. By Richard Bookstaber—The New York Times
    The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction By Richard Bookstaber
    The Poverty of Historicism By Karl Popper
    Iran Is Trying to Defeat America in the Living Room By Karim Sadjadpour—The Atlantic
    Iran war is the greatest threat to global energy ‘in history’, warns IEA By Malcom Moore—Financial Times
    ‘Once and for All’ Means Never By Thomas L. Friedman—The New York Times
    AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job By Adam Ozimek—The Atlantic
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    291: How To Survive the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Shutdown
    377: What If It’s Different This Time?
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About Money For the Rest of Us

A personal finance and investing podcast on money, how it works, how to invest it and how to live without worrying about it. J. David Stein is a former Chief Investment Strategist and money manager. For close to two decades, he has been teaching individuals and institutions how to invest and handle their finances in ways that are simple to understand. More info at moneyfortherestofus.com
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