David's Articles

David has been writing and blogging for over 10 years

Most Recent Articles:

The Nashville Real Estate Market in 1 Chart

Like many others, I have been wrestling with the massive growth in the Nashville real estate market. The Nashville Business Journal's Crane Watch is tracking 123 major development projects alone. This of course does not count the massive amount of residential...

Emulate, Don’t Fear the 3G Way – Notes from Dream Big by Cristiane Correa

We recently finished reading, Dream Big – Cristiane Correa. (Disclaimer – These are Amazon Affiliate links and pay a small commission to me for the referral) Originally published only in Brazil, Dream Big is the story of 3G Capital, the now owners of Budweiser, Burger...

45 Things Going on in the Economy Right Now

If you have followed our weekly articles digest, you are no doubt aware of the large amount of material that we review each week. Sometimes it is easy to miss the forest for the trees, so we thought it prescient to take a step back and outline what we feel like we see...

FCS Reading List – 1H’2015

"Liber medicina animi — a book is the soul’s medicine." Top Reads in 2015 (through June 30th): Biography I'll Drink to That - Betty Halbreich - Halbreich created the personal shopping department at Bergdorf Goodman. Her life (now in her...

The Top 10 Lessons from the book “What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars”

I just finished reading “What I learned losing a million dollars” by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan. This book is the excellent story of a young man who was a successful commodities trader who was entirely wiped out in a period of 6 weeks or so. Per our usual format,...