1/ An Allegory of Finance

I have been posting a lot of educational (and humorous!) threads on finance, money, and economics.

My mission is simple: to demystify these concepts and make them accessible to everyone.

All of the threads can be found below. Enjoy and please share!
2/ A Thread on Markets https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1259141067938557952?s=20
3/ Money Printing 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1280507298083979265?s=20
4/ A Thread on Sound Money https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1276913368083730432?s=20
5/ A Thread on Bubbles https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1275449483778600963?s=20
6/ Credit & Debt 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1277646664493199360?s=20
7/ Bonds & Yields 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1281258443920179201?s=20
8/ Bonds & Yields 102 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1281980751366328320?s=20
9/ Call Options 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1283080850641317889?s=20
10/ Put Options 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1283402234747731968?s=20
11/ Margin Trading 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1284167630820016128?s=20
12/ Short Selling 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1280150884534456320?s=20
13/ Bankruptcy 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1270730981754822656?s=20
14/ SPAC 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1280904923295543296?s=20
15/ Gold Standard 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1282344974298701824?s=20
16/ Mafia Bonds 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1281604413635702786?s=20
17/ Fund Rebalancing 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1276138455869747205?s=20
18/ On Perverse Incentives ($MRNA) https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1262832961558208512?s=20
19/ Wirecard's WireFraud https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1273983020928602113?s=20
20/ The Luckin Coffee Frauduccino https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1276530895000752128?s=20
21/ The GSX Robo Army https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1279064441347137541?s=20
22/ How to Hack Better https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1283852363401318400?s=20
23/ The "Fed Put" 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1285945300687876097?s=20
24/ ETFs 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1286693316017283072?s=20
25/ VIX 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1287778739493859328?s=20
26/ Jim Fisk’s Civil War Big Short https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1288146243202330624?s=21 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1288146243202330624
27/ Derivatives 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1288866266661310465?s=20
28/ Charles Ponzi's Scheme https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1290310213711441921?s=20
29/ Short Squeeze 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1291030969953038336?s=20
30/ Futures 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1291769272323039232?s=20
31/ The New Trader's Handbook https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1292513533863718915?s=20
32/ Gregor MacGregor's Poyaisian Scheme https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1292847519039291393?s=20
33/ Inflation 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1293590227064217603?s=20
34/ Stock Splits 101 https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1293947648118943744?s=21 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1293947648118943744
35/ The Onion King https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1295387751076913153?s=20
36/ Deflation 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1296114478166073344?s=20
37/ The Eiffel Tower Con https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1297918013342007296
38/ Banking 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1298660564688728069
39/ The Tabasco Origin Story https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1299389338518577153
40/ The Pre-Ponzi Ponzi Scheme https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1300468823200464917
41/ Stagflation 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1301209639741161473?s=20
42/ The Sriracha Story https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1301910492085059584
43/ The Tomato Vegetable Wars https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1303005300270612480
44/ Risk-Free Rate 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1303387268699140097
45/ The 🍌 👑 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1304452488427237378
46/ The Keely Motor Company https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1305533826769145856
47/ Compounding 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1306627924561338370
48/ The Mississippi Bubble https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1308040398917443589
49/ Cantillon Effect 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1309145743756865536
50/ The Match 🤴 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1310596492042756096
51/ Value at Risk 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1311682355443113984
52/ Soros Breaks the BOE https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1313145657381670913
53/ “Containerization” https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1314586416060358657
54/ Not ZZZZ Best https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1316031853279629315
55/ Fiscal Policy 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1316775361959481344
56/ Ocean Spray Dreams https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1318202284161986560
57/ The 🐍 Effect https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1318926201772101632
58/ The 🍕🧀 King https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1320766097935593472
59/ Dollar Cost Averaging 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1321473101180198912
60/ Sara Blakely’s Non-Linear Success Story https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1323297969702084608
61/ Noise Bottleneck 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1323983982191628288
62/ 🌷 Mania https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1325827589173374979
63/ Occam’s 🪒 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1326895385445593088
64/ The Legend of John Paul DeJoria https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1328447481613594626
65/ First Principles of First Principles https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1329458583537397765
66/ Sir James Dyson’s Innovation https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1330914114953244673
67/ The Lindy Effect https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1331634649135779846
68/ Remembering Tony Hsieh https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1332792478605438989
69/ The Overton Window https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1334161685926428677
70/ Survivorship Bias https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1336682447853871105
71/ The Legendary Mrs. B https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1341047293051510785
72/ Second-Order Thinking 101 https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1342126994683617280
73/ The Incredible Life of Robert Smalls https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1345412608459898881
74/ Circle of Competence https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1346849999405993984
75/ The Dunning-Kruger Effect https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1350077522935832576
76/ The Power Five Mental Models https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1350958537774690311
77/ The Amazing Story of Morris Chang & TSMC https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1353369463190560773
78/ The $GME Market Saga https://twitter.com/sahilbloom/status/1354436658129563650
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