Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be investment professionals.
That’s the argument Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the …
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Day-Trading Your 401(k): Bad Idea, or the Worst Idea?
Back in the wild and woolly and, well, more innocent days of the tech stock boom — you remember it, don’t you? — it seemed like everyone and his brother and second cousin twice removed had taken up day-trading. To a lot of …
How the Rich Got Rich
John D. Rockefeller, America’s first billionaire, said, “If your only goal is to become rich, you’ll never achieve it.”
Easy for him to say, but his point is well taken: If the only thing you care about is making money, no …
Future of Retail: Companies That Profit By Investing in Employees
Ideally, a capitalist economy is constantly becoming more efficient. The benefits of that newly gained efficiency, however, are not always uniformly distributed. Sometimes it goes to business owners in the form of higher prices, …
Was Nick Hanauer’s TED Talk on Income Inequality Too Rich for Rich People?
Their slogan is “ideas worth spreading.” But the folks at TED – the Technology Entertainment and Design nonprofit behind the TED Talks, beloved by geeks and others interested in novel new ideas – evidently think that some …
China’s Gravity-defying Economy: How Hard Will It Fall?
As China’s high-octane economy shifts into lower gear, virtually everyone agrees that the double-digit, super-charged boom years are drawing to a close. Speculation over the possibility of a so-called “hard landing” for the …
