“In his three-decade career, he grew the university’s endowment from $1 billion in 1985 to $31 billion in 2020. The results speak for themselves as he is largely considered to be one of the greatest investors of our time.” | learn more
“A 1648 Dutch water bond housed at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is unique among the tens of thousands of manuscripts that reside there. … It still pays annual interest more than 367 years after it was issued.” | learn […]
CoinDesk reports that Harvard, Yale and Brown endowments have been quietly buying crypto through Coinbase and other exchanges. | learn more
In October 2019, Yale historian Frank Snowden published Epidemics in Society: From the Black Death to the Present. Click through for some interesting epidemic context based on the plague in Europe. | learn more
It’s called The Science of Well-Being. The online ratings and feedback are impressive: 4,000+ ratings with 98% approval and 4.9 stars. Direct link to course. If you’re not quarantined with small children, you should have plenty of time to check it […]