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It is time to admit it: the investment advice I gave in my book Investing in the New Normal (2010) is entirely outdated. Even worse, it is ineffectual. Not that putting your money into investment funds – the main focus of the investment advice there given – is guaranteed to lose you money. It’s just … Continue reading “Understanding Corporate Bonds: A Reliable Investment Option”
The 2013 movie Elysium depicts a dystopian future of unremitting, jarring poverty juxtaposed with serene, detached wealth. Literally detached: wealth resides in a lavishly equipped, lebensraum-furnished space station, high above an impoverished, exhausted Earth. The planet is only useful as a source of provision and maintenance for the space station; its fruits have been extracted … Continue reading “On the Road to Elysium”
When Schumpeter writes, “Now to the question: what is a savings account?”,[1] he is not being facetious. There is more to savings than meets the eye. Of course, the bare fact of saving is simple enough to understand. Rather than spend all of our earnings, we take some and put it to one side. What … Continue reading “The Problem of Saving”