Your favorite online finance writers?

Just wanted to get the forum’s collective knowledge here. Here are some of my favorites:

  1. Without a doubt, my favorite finance writer of all time is Joshua Kennon. Basically an early e-commerce wunderkind who got enough money early on through superior investing talents and business acumen that he’s started his own RIA with about $100MM AUM. True financial genius who writes about simple things, but especially the complex stuff no one else touches. Much of his work was delisted from the site in “the Great Purge,” a time when he removed potentially problematic content from his site to make RIA compliance easier.

  2. Jacob Fisker / EarlyRetirementExtreme. A true philosopher. Scandinavian rocket scientist turned US RV dweller who lives off of rice, lentils, and fat retirement accounts. Bit of a wonk on the peak oil side and too frugal even for my tastes (I’m more frugal than almost anyone else on here). He will make you reconsider the entire way you live your life. Not publishing new content, though, just recirculates old content automatically. Author of the ERE book as well. He can be a bit too highbrow for his own good, but I dig him overall.

  3. Financial Samurai. Ex-investment banker turned blogger. Writes about saving for retirement. A bit of a shill for various apps and real estate crowdfunding platforms, but gives very solid advice.

  4. MMM / Mr. Money Mustache. The more famous and lower brow version of ERE. He writes solid stuff too. Haven’t read him in years. I also hear people dislike him because of the way he treated his ex-wife or something.

  5. MadFIentist and White Coat Investor. These guys focus a bit too exclusively on tax-deferred accounts at the expense of other stuff. Other than that, they’re solid people too.

I tried Ben Felix and thought he was a lightweight. Keenly interested in your thoughts. Cheers

 

+1 SB. Hadn’t heard of the first two. Levine is tied with Sorkin as the most famous financial journalist working today, in my opinion.

Overall, it looks like you took this a bit more of the journalism route, which is not wrong, just different. Both AIC and Keubiko seem to be more day-to-day newsletter style pieces on the investment side rather than broad sweeping blogs. Thanks for tipping me off :)

 

Kuppy is the king. You can still learn lot even from just reading in his AIC blogs from 5 years ago. His one on politics through the analogy of fraternity life was poetic

 

The guys at Ritholtz are pretty good, Nick Magiulli in particular. Morgan Housel is also great but will caveat that these are both more of the behavioral finance cohort. I really like Jamie Catherwood with his Investor Amnesia series on Twitter - financial history is an under-appreciated topic that is very topical today (e.g., you’re probably seeing a few 1970s comparisons more recently).

 

+1 SB. Barry is also one of the most famous figures in financial media today. I started reading some Of Dollars and Data and found it to be really superficial stuff like DCA. Is this your take?

I loathe Morgan Housel. One of the most overhyped people in the business. Nowhere near as creative as Kahneman, Tversky, or Thaler. He just repackages the same stuff. I’ve read the same stuff in two dozen books.

Investor Amnesia is a favorite of one of my closest colleagues. He’s also fond of Brent Beshore, Invest Like the Best, and Farnam Street. I haven’t read IA enough, but you’ve put it higher on my priorities.

 

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