https://finbloghub.space/ Finance, AI, culture, career growth, and personal essays from Dekena Wade. en-us Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:36:29 GMT https://finbloghub.space/post/career-path-not-linear-never-random https://finbloghub.space/post/career-path-not-linear-never-random Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A reflection on connecting participatory budgeting, asset management, international tax, nonprofit consulting, AI, and industrial real estate into one finance story. https://finbloghub.space/post/reading-crosscurrents-ai-oil-inflation-q4-2026 https://finbloghub.space/post/reading-crosscurrents-ai-oil-inflation-q4-2026 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A finance student's Q4 2026 outlook connecting July jobs data, CPI, oil disruptions, AI investment, Federal Reserve policy, and why uncertainty still leaves room for cautious optimism. https://finbloghub.space/post/from-tumblr-html-to-financial-technology https://finbloghub.space/post/from-tumblr-html-to-financial-technology Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building my finance portfolio changed how I see the industry, from a linear career path to a connected world of fintech, quantitative finance, PropTech, AI, data, and financial infrastructure. https://finbloghub.space/post/competing-without-the-pipeline-public-school https://finbloghub.space/post/competing-without-the-pipeline-public-school Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Prestige opens doors, but it is not the same thing as potential. What attending public school taught me about hidden recruiting systems, building proof through projects, and competing without becoming someone else. https://finbloghub.space/post/under-the-hood-dad-taught-me-systems https://finbloghub.space/post/under-the-hood-dad-taught-me-systems Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The first engineer I knew was my dad. His love of machines, maps, and explanation shaped how I now approach finance, technology, and systems. https://finbloghub.space/post/taking-reins-cloned-website-harvard-python https://finbloghub.space/post/taking-reins-cloned-website-harvard-python Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT I started with AI-built portfolio sites. Now I am learning Git, databases, and Python so I can understand the code behind my finance projects. https://finbloghub.space/post/maritime-insurance https://finbloghub.space/post/maritime-insurance Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT War, trade tensions, and geopolitical risk are reshaping global insurance markets. Could governments step in to replace private insurers like Lloyd's of London? https://finbloghub.space/post/geopolitics-ai https://finbloghub.space/post/geopolitics-ai Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Something strange is happening in the global economy right now. On one side, geopolitics feels increasingly unstable. On the other, agentic AI is quietly watching the entire system move in real time. https://finbloghub.space/post/aon-internship https://finbloghub.space/post/aon-internship Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Not just making coffee. I walk through what broking D&O policies looks like, working with underwriters, and what I learned about risk, power, and corporate drama. https://finbloghub.space/post/grief-and-grind https://finbloghub.space/post/grief-and-grind Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Trying to pass classes, show up for family, and still process losing my mom. https://finbloghub.space/post/ai-tax-diagram-tool https://finbloghub.space/post/ai-tax-diagram-tool Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jason Yen built a tax structure diagram tool in 2 hours using ChatGPT Codex with zero coding experience. His story reveals something bigger about how AI is reshaping professional hierarchies and what it means for firms like EY. https://finbloghub.space/post/training-models-waiting-for-job https://finbloghub.space/post/training-models-waiting-for-job Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I have been doing the work companies say they want: LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, workflow testing. So why is it still so hard to land a full-time role in AI? https://finbloghub.space/post/graduating-into-inflation https://finbloghub.space/post/graduating-into-inflation Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The U.S. inflation rate in May 2026 matches exactly what it was in May 2006. The economy surrounding that number is not the same. Here is what the comparison actually tells us. https://finbloghub.space/post/ai-environmental-discrimination https://finbloghub.space/post/ai-environmental-discrimination Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two viral videos — a sound meter held up to a data center in Michigan, and a Black IT professional with 13 years of experience saying racism cost her a better job — raise the same uncomfortable question: is AI making old problems worse? https://finbloghub.space/post/warsh-fed-chair https://finbloghub.space/post/warsh-fed-chair Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kevin Warsh replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 22, 2026. He wants lower rates. But his own definition of price stability might keep them high longer than anyone expects. https://finbloghub.space/post/safety-nets-middle-class https://finbloghub.space/post/safety-nets-middle-class Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two years ago I argued in my microeconomics class that safety nets for working-class families are an extreme necessity. My professor pushed back. Here is what the data says now. https://finbloghub.space/post/from-fashion-to-finance https://finbloghub.space/post/from-fashion-to-finance Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT My path into finance didn't start with stock charts or investment textbooks. It started at a fashion event in New York City — and a realization that changed everything. https://finbloghub.space/post/r-for-finance https://finbloghub.space/post/r-for-finance Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Bootstrapping, yield curves, Nelson–Siegel models — and a career crisis I didn't see coming. What an R class taught me about data, finance, and where I actually want to go. https://finbloghub.space/post/war-risk-insurance-lloyds https://finbloghub.space/post/war-risk-insurance-lloyds Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why ships need war-risk insurance, why premiums spike during conflict, and how Lloyd's of London became the center of global maritime risk. https://finbloghub.space/post/what-finance-taught-me https://finbloghub.space/post/what-finance-taught-me Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT I thought finance was mostly about money. The deeper I go, the more I realize it's really about understanding how people make decisions under uncertainty. https://finbloghub.space/post/learning-mandarin-finance-major https://finbloghub.space/post/learning-mandarin-finance-major Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Tones, characters, and why my flashcards know all my secrets — and why studying Mandarin and studying finance have more in common than people think. https://finbloghub.space/post/how-search-changed https://finbloghub.space/post/how-search-changed Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT From my dad's Dell laptop in 2009 to AI prompts in 2026 — three eras of finding things on the internet, and what the shift from searching to prompting means for information literacy. https://finbloghub.space/post/who-is-documenting-this https://finbloghub.space/post/who-is-documenting-this Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The early 1900s had Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis to document the human cost of industrialization. The AI data center boom has TikTok, Reddit, and a Fortune reporter in muddy cornfields. The structural pattern is the same. https://finbloghub.space/post/when-ai-builds-itself https://finbloghub.space/post/when-ai-builds-itself Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three papers from Meta, Anthropic, and Tauric Research describe AI moving up the value chain — from data labeling to trading firm decision-making. What does that mean for finance careers?