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Oblivious Investor
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Oblivious Investor is a personal blog at obliviousinvestor.com about economics and business. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Oblivious Investor posts on investing concepts, such as the term premium behind yield curves and how markets price in expected events before they happen.
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What Hacker News says?
There are a few factors that cause one to expect a monotonically increasing, concave yield curve [0]. Firstly, one must consider the term premium [1]. In short, you expect to be compensated more for lending money for a longer period of time. Consider lending money for two years. You could lend your money in two single year-long increments, in which case you would compound your gains from the first year when you lend…
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on “U.S. Treasury Yield Curve Inverts for First Time Since 2007”Submitted My Experience with Check Fraud – and What You Can Learn from It as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLots of events are already "priced in" before they happen. That is, investors have anticipated the upcoming event (eg Ethereum upgrade) and the stock/token price has already moved accordingly. https://obliviousinvestor.com/what-does-it-mean-for-somethin...
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on “The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment Unsealed [pdf]”Submitted What's Your Funded Ratio? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the Point of Bonds in a Portfolio? as a story · 1 points
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