70% of people don't read beyond the headlines. I don't know if this is true or where I saw it but it feels right. Footnote reading has got to be a rare sport. Perhaps one in a hundred do that. Some deep understanding requires footnote experience. We're o ...
When Simple Financial Products Win
Index investing is one of the greatest growth stories in finance. Indexing is a form of passive investing, a simple strategy--basically long-term autopilot. Why try to beat the S&P 500 when you can match it? Even Warren Buffett recommends it for other ...
An Interview with AtlasMD
Josh Umbehr, MD is the founder of AtlasMD, Wichita-based direct primary care (DPC) clinics with over 3,000 patients, and a software business with over 500 clients and 10 years of operating history. DPC is an insurance-free monthly cash membership model fo ...
Modeling The Future
In 2006 Countrywide Financial financed 20% of mortgages in the US--loan volume equal to 3.5% of GDP. Two years later, early in the financial crisis of 2008-09, Bank of America swooped in and bought them the stock had dropped over 75% from its 2007 levels ...
Healthcare Data Collaboration
Times of stress and crises heighten the senses, clear travel calendars, and renew our focus. For those on the business side of healthcare working on benefits purchasing, data, or analytics, this is a great moment to collaborate, to share and seek out data ...