
Real Estate
Farmland REITs vs. Direct Ownership: The NAV Discount, Tax, and Liquidity Tradeoffs You Need to Understand
TL;DR: Farmland Partners (FPI) and Gladstone Land (LAND) let you buy farmland exposure with a brokerage account and no minimum beyond one share, but both trade at 25-30% discounts to their own...
Jeff Barnes, MBA··10 min read

Alternative Investments
Whisky Cask Investing: The Alternative Asset With a Fraud Problem
Alison Cocks has terminal cancer. She spent £103,000 buying whisky casks she thought would fund her family's future, money handed to Cask Whisky Ltd, a firm run by Craig Brooks, a man later expos
Jeff Barnes, MBA··9 min read

Alternative Investments
Inside the $42 Billion Tax Credit Market Wall Street Investors Have Never Heard Of
According to Crux Climate's 2025 Market Intelligence Report , the market for transferable federal clean energy tax credits grew to roughly $42 billion in 2025, up from about $4 billion in 2023,...
Jeff Barnes, MBA··10 min read