Jared Dillian is a writer, trader, musician, entrepreneur, and educator.
His newsletters include The Daily Dirtnap, a daily market newsletter for investment professionals, and We’re Gonna Get Those Bastards, a free newsletter which is about everything that is depraved, especially finance, culture, music and sex.
His books include Street Freak, All the Evil of This World, Those Bastards, No Worries, and Night Moves.
In his spare time, Jared is a progressive house DJ and speaks frequently on mental health issues at financial institutions.
You can find him on Twitter.
About
Jared is the founder and principal of Armington Capital, LLC, a registered commodity trading advisor, and editor of The Daily Dirtnap, a daily market newsletter for investment professionals, continuously published since 2008. He graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1996 with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, from the University of San Francisco in 2001 with a Masters in Business Administration, concentration in Finance, where he earned the MBA Award for highest academic average, and from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2023 with a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing, where he earned the SCAD Outstanding MFA Writer Award. Jared worked for a small floor market maker on the Pacific Options Exchange from 1999-2000, and was a trader for Lehman Brothers from 2001 to 2008, specializing in index arbitrage and ETF trading.
He is also the author of STREET FREAK: Money And Madness At Lehman Brothers, which was named Businessweek’s #1 general business book of 2011, the novel ALL THE EVIL OF THIS WORLD, published in 2016, and THOSE BASTARDS: 69 Essays on Life, Creativity, and Meaning, published in 2023, NO WORRIES: How To Live a Stress-Free Financial Life, published in January 2024, NIGHT MOVES and Other Stories, published in September 2024, and RULE 62: Meditations on Success and Spirituality, to be published in the summer of 2025. Additionally, Jared is an adjunct professor in the business program at Coastal Carolina University.
Jared was also an investment strategist at Mauldin Economics, is a contributor at Reason, and previously contributed to Bloomberg Opinion, Forbes and TheStreet.com. His media appearances include MSNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV, BNN, The New York Times, LA Times, Business Insider, Marketwatch, Yahoo! Finance, NPR, and dozens of local and syndicated radio programs.
He is an accomplished public speaker, with dozens of conferences and events to his name. Jared is a partner and content creator at Jared Dillian Money, his personal finance venture. He was the host of The Jared Dillian Show, a nationally syndicated radio show on personal finance, on 700 stations nationwide.
In his spare time, Jared is a progressive house DJ and speaks frequently on mental health issues at financial institutions.
