$ Please (My Ask)
I am asking you, my friend, to give me a small modicum of Power.
In Western Democratic Capitalism, Power is intermediated through money, so put more directly…
I’m asking you for money.
What’s In It For You?
If you subscribe, you’ll get:
All the stuff I publish for free, obviously. The difference is you’re helping me reach a larger audience.
“The Good Stuff”: While I will keep the summaries open for everyone, anything I write that involves data, charts, deep-dive analysis, controversial hot takes, regulatory nerdery, market structure concerns and suchlike will be behind the paywall.
Transcripts, research notes and ephemera from my regular podcast appearances on Excess Returns.
Content as often as I can make it, or as often as is required. At a minimum, my goal is weekly markets and ETF oriented content, but I suspect I’ll have plenty of one-shot takes too.
For the Discriminating Connoisseur: Please Consider being a Medici (that is, a Founder).
For the last year and change about 50% of my output has been in the form of Zines — 20 page hand-made art books on money and capitalism. You can see an example, but they look like this:
Chances are, if you’re considering being a founding supporter, you might already be getting these. But either way, as a Zinester Medici, you’ll receive a new, quarterly Nadig.com Zine on the ETF industry, hand made, hand sewn, laser cut and silk screened by me. These short run zines (Plus any other art projects I can’t contain) will be solely for you, my patrons. You will need to give me an address.
And if you need something…
While I’m open to consulting work, what I’ve found is that 90% of the value I seem to provide in a consulting engagement comes in the first few meetings. So in the interest of expediency: Book a meeting. I’ll give you my best ideas, opinions, reactions and insights, and then we can all move on. No need to call: Book here. I charge $500 an hour.
Dave, but Seriously. Why?
While the above are the supposed value proposition, and I aim to make anyone who subscribes a happy customer, there’s another, probably more important reason I’d like you to consider subscribing.
Trust.
I’ve spent my entire career on this beat, but for my entire career, I’ve always been underneath someone’s umbrella, which is another way of saying “coopted.” I have looked around this big, broad industry and honestly, there aren’t many voices out there that are clearly, obviously and exclusively on the side of the investor.
That’s not a dis against the amazing journalists and analysts at both the big media sites and the niche industry players in ETFs, finance, wealth management or anywhere else. It’s just true. It’s very difficult to write completely openly, completely honestly, and with the risk of being wrong every day, while also trying to make a boss, a sponsor, an advertiser and an editor happy.
So I’ve just decided not to.
I will get things wrong. I will make mistakes. But I will never, ever not tell you exactly what I think. I hope I’ve earned the trust for that to be worth something. If so.
Thank you. Please Subscribe!
