Edward F. McQuarrie

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Highly paid niece asks: “Cheaper to buy instead of rent?”

My 27-year-old niece works for a tech company in Silicon Valley. Like many of her 20-something friends, salary plus bonus plus stock awards…

Apr 5, 2024

Highly paid niece asks: “Cheaper to buy instead of rent?”

Apr 5, 2024

8 Wealth Rules for Highly-Paid 20-Somethings

In high tech industries, at the level of the newly hired STEM, engineering, or computer science graduate who is 20-something, the typically…

Apr 4, 2024

I made $1.72 in just 30 days on Medium!

That’s almost 3 cents per minute of reading time (63 minutes) provided across my seven posts.

Jan 25, 2024

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Distribution of Stock and Bond Returns Compared

Stocks are supposed to give a higher return than bonds because stocks are riskier. Turns out, that has not always been the case, even over…

Jan 8, 2024

Distribution of Stock and Bond Returns Compared

Jan 8, 2024

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Returns are not normally distributed. What that means. (Final)

Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here, and Part 3 is here

Dec 29, 2023

Returns are not normally distributed. What that means. (Final)

Dec 29, 2023

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Returns are not normally distributed. What that means. (#3)

Part 1 of this series is here

Dec 28, 2023

Returns are not normally distributed. What that means. (#3)

Dec 28, 2023

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Returns are not normally distributed. What that means. (#2)

[Part 1 is here]

Dec 27, 2023

Returns are not normally distributed. What that means. (#2)

Dec 27, 2023

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Returns are not normally distributed. What that means.

You may have heard that the distribution of stock returns is fat-tailed, meaning that extreme returns occur more often than in a normal…

Dec 26, 2023

Returns are not normally distributed. What that means.

Dec 26, 2023

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Worst Bond Market Ever? (Part 2)

Part 1 is here: https://medium.com/@emcquarrie/worst-bond-market-ever-69642072754f

Dec 26, 2023

Dec 26, 2023

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Worst. Bond. Market. Ever.

We may be in the middle of one of the great bond bear markets. Here is a progress report as of December 2023.

Dec 25, 2023

Dec 25, 2023