Welcome to the first ever installment of the Freedom Portfolio! As a reminder, the Freedom Portfolio represents my attempt to beat the market (represented by the S&P 500 index) by buying and selling shares of individual companies. The portfolio represents the vast majority of individual publicly traded companies that I am invested in. I’ve been managing this portfolio since 2003.
Have you heard about Tilray (TLRY)? It’s the marijuana stock which has gone from $53 a share to $300 a share and back down to $100 a share… just in the past month! That’s not even as crazy as the single day where trading was halted 5 times due to volatility and went from being up 90% (in one day!) to briefly being negative, to finally finishing in the green.
About a month and a half ago, I wrote about my attempts to seek out failure and how, ironically, I had so far failed to find failure. I needn’t have worried, because failure found me: I was let go from my job at The Motley Fool. To be blunt, this sucks. It sucks a lot. I loved working at The Motley Fool and I really thought it would be the…
2016 brought the Xbox Fitness Challenge. 2017 brought the P90x3 Challenge. You didn’t think we were getting all the way through 2018 without another (probably futile) attempt by me to get into shape, did you? Since 90 days of 30 minute workouts didn’t work, I figured maybe I would try 21 days of 30 minute workouts. For 2018, I’ll be trying out Beachbody’s 21 Day Fix workout (and yes, I…
My Rampant Discourse co-contributors were scared off by my amazing performance last year when I accurately predicted the surprising ascent of the Eagles and Rams, so I’ll be running solo on our slimmed down NFL predictions this year. I don’t have any supremely bold predictions, but maybe that’ll help me get more than half of my division winners right this time around. Read on to find out who I think…
Avengers: Infinity War came out on Blu-Ray last week on August 14th, so now seems like a perfect time to look back on the most ambitious crossover event in history. I’ve seen the movie three times already and plan to watch it a lot more now that I don’t have to a buy a movie ticket every time to see it. Warning, I’m going to get into some pretty nerdy…
As you may have noticed, I’ve been on a bit of entrepreneurial kick lately. It started around nine months ago, when I talked about the lessons that I learned from my biggest investing mistake. It was there that I wrote about the saying that had really resonated with me and which was starting to change how I looked at things: “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”…
I’m not a “gun guy”. While I do believe individuals should have the right to bear arms, I myself don’t own any firearms and I’ve never been terribly interested in buying one. I would be hard-pressed to explain the difference between a Sig Sauer and a Glock or the difference between a 22 caliber or a 45 millimeter. I’ve shot a gun 3 or 4 times in my life, and…
For years, if not decades, libertarians have been making the argument that the two major parties had become virtually indistinguishable from one another. While their rhetoric might differ, their behavior once in office has tended to be basically the same. Both parties were interventionist when it came to foreign policy. Neither party was anti-war, even if some on the left liked to make a show of it when there was…
Freedom of speech has been in the news a lot lately, with the reboot of Roseanne getting canceled after some controversial tweets from the star. Soon after, Samantha Bee was apologizing for profanely insulting Ivanka Trump and conservatives were questioning why Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann haven’t been punished for what they see as similar offenses. All of this comes less than a week after the NFL passed a new rule penalizing…