A Growing Nation Is The Greatest Ponzi

Anyone With Special Abilities Earns A Differential Return On That Flair, Which We Economists Call A Rent. Those Few With Extraordinary P.q. (performance Quotient) Will Not Give Away Such Rent To The Ford Foundation Or The Local Bank Trust Department. They Have Too High An I.q. For That.

Investing Should Be More Like Watching Paint Dry Or Watching Grass Grow. If You Want Excitement, Take $800 And Go To Las Vegas.

We're A Me-me-me Generation. We're Borrowing The Savings Of Every Nation In The World. We're ... Piling Up A Big Tab. Now, I May Think We're Too Big To Have A Run On Us. You May Think That. But It's Possible That God Does Not.

Still, I Figure We Shouldn't' Discourage Fans Of Actively Managed Funds. With All Their Buying And Selling, Active Investors Ensure The Market Is Reasonably Efficient. That Makes It Possible For The Rest Of Us To Do The Sensible Thing, Which Is To Index. Want To Join Me In This Parasitic Behavior? To Build A Well-diversified Portfolio, You Might Stash 70 Percent Of Your Stock Portfolio Into A Wilshire 5000-index Fund And The Remaining 30 Percent In An International-index Fund.

Asia's Governments Come In Two Broad Varieties: Young, Fragile Democracies - And Older, Fragile Authoritarian Regimes.