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Robin Powell
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Robin Powell writes Evidence Investor, a personal blog at evidenceinvestor.com about economics and business. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Robin Powell's blog for its investing and finance posts, including a chart comparison of a risk parity fund and an efficient-markets 'twenty dollar bill' post. Both links here are bare or used as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Robin Powell is a journalist and broadcaster, campaigning for positive change in the investing industry through The Evidence-Based Investor. Each week, Robin speaks to genuine experts in the field to find out the truth about investing.
What Hacker News says?
It seems very disingenuous to say "you don't even have to open a textbook" and then link to a quant finance blog doing partial derivatives. That's well beyond the level of math that the average person would consider self-evident. I don't know anything about this blog^[0] , but I wanted to find some charts comparing a well known risk parity fund to more general portfiolios. Trusting that they're accurate, it looks li…
Comment linking /the-all-weather-portfolio-explained/
on “Jim Simons proved the textbooks wrong, almost”Submitted Teaching People to Trade Stocks Is Like Starting Them on Heroin – Munger as a story · 120 points
HN discussionMaybe it's like there is a $20 bill on the ground and everybody is believing in efficient markets. https://www.evidenceinvestor.com/the-twenty-dollar-bill/
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on “Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Moderna's 2015/2016 patents”Submitted 50 Laws of Investing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted $1T and Counting – Jack Bogle’s Legacy to Investors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Nuggets of Investment Wisdom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strong Opinions Loosely Held as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More Evidence That Alpha Generation Is Shrinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Have the FAANG Stocks Been So Dominant? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted And Worst of Times (Economically) as a story · 1 points
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