The Efficient Market Hypothesis(EMH) is an economic theory that states that an asset’s price reflects all of the available information. This means that it’s more or less impossible to achieve abnormal returns (unless you have extreme intelligence, insider information or excess capital). The academic community swears by this hypothesis…

What is Generational Wealth? It’s as simple as it sounds. Wealth that gets transferred from one generation of a family to the next. We were choosing slogans for my school’s investment club and we landed on “Creating generational…

If you know me in real life or you have read my previous posts, you can tell I like all things money and economics, but especially the stock market. I’ve been interested in it ever since I started high school. However, I lived in Ethiopia, and investing in stocks is…

If you live in Ethiopia, you know that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that we import everything with the exception of coffee, fruits and vegetables and crops/grains. One might say that there is no problem with this, as long as we can afford it and the direct effects…

Stocks. The stock market. What comes to mind? A bunch of guys in suits shouting at each other? Or a black screen with green numbers flashing through? Maybe its the bronze sculpture of a raging bull on Wall Street? Simply put, a stock market is simply a place where shares…