Dr. Eric Bricker, MD is a physician, a co-founder of Compass Professional Health Services, now part of Alight, and the founder of both AHealthcareZ and Texas Family Insurance. His content is rich and deep and he's a must-follow for those in healthcare.Q: ...
Financial Broccoli
Kellogg tells you their cereal is natural and has whole grains. There are no broccoli lobbyists or marketers (other than moms). Some good things do need reminders. One trigger for some of my favorite healthcare and financial housekeeping tips starts with ...
Valuing a Piece of Americana
Baseball cards are part of Americana. The slotted binders, stats, and bike rides to shops evoke nostalgia too. The investment merit of cards fit is another question. An index of the rarest of cards may have outperformed the S&P 500 by 2.3x over the l ...
Price and Value
The tension between price and value is familiar. We want the $14k Ford Fiesta price but the Tesla Model S product. We usually get what we pay for. Employers promote generous healthcare benefits, ones with little advertised friction (e.g., low deductibles ...
Arbitrage and the Advice We Give
In March the gap between London and New York gold prices jumped to $60 per ounce, 40 times the typical spread of $1.50 per ounce. In times of fear, investors prefer to have their gold in New York. These extreme arbitragearbitrage: to simultaneously buy lo ...