Origins of the Blog

This blog is to serve as a creative writing outlet. My day job is working as a Macro Strategist at an asset management company. I am lucky enough to be able to write on various economic topics as part of my work, however by its very nature, I am limited on what I can write given the reasonable confines of working in a larger organization. This blog will serve as an outlet for some topics I have no place commenting on given my role in the company, but where i still believe I have strong views.

As for the name of the blog, its just an homage to the first concept I learned in Econ 101. TINSTAAFL — There is no such thing as a free lunch. It’s a pretty terrible sounding acryonym, but maybe that is why it has stuck in my mind after all these years. The idea is that everything comes with a cost, no matter if something was seemingly free. The literal example of the acryonym is that while someone may buy you lunch and it cost you nothing, someone, somewhere is paying for it. The example makes it seem so trivially obvious that it is not worth discussing, but its a concept that policymakers seem to continue to forget.