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Andrew Tobias
Personal blog · andrewtobias.comeconomicswriting
Andrew Tobias's personal blog at andrewtobias.com covers economics and writing. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link andrewtobias.com for personal investing advice, especially his book The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need. Other links cite his columns and essays on economics and history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
I recommend Andrew Tobias's classic _The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need_. Very sensible, and very readable. http://www.andrewtobias.com/theonly.html
Comment linking /theonly.html
on “The best investment advice you'll never get”Submitted Lenovo prevents price comparing as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- X9 · 2013-06-22
Been also watching WheelTug[1] as a result of Andrew Tobias' interest (and investment) in it[2]. Sounds like they have more customers lined up, but competition already in this market should be a good thing! [1] http://www.wheeltug.gi/ [2] http://andrewtobias.com/column/hot-brakes/
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on “Paris Air Show’s Slowest Plane Could Have Biggest Impact” The 2nd half of this link has some fairly extensive quotes from Madison, Jefferson and Washington on the idea of inherited wealth. https://andrewtobias.com/jefferson-madison-and-washington-on... I think you'll find that this was a very different take on it than the one held by those in power back in England at the time.
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on “The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich [pdf]”The attitudes of some peoples in these regions reminds me of a story: Two peasants lived across the road from each other. One morning, one of them found his milk cow dead in the barn. Without his milk cow he had no income and no future. Despairing, he fell upon the ground, wailing and begging God's mercy. So deep was his agony and so eloquent his prayers that God Himself heard and spoke to him: "Your entreaties have…
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on “White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border”