The letter Ethan Brodie of AJO sent to introduce my article: This is heavy stuff. Larry Siegel reviews The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. Larry warns at the start that the density of the book makes it “maddening.” Larry also notes that the book “provides an effective counterpoint to …
Save the Children (from Apocalyptic Thinking)
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Debunking Nine and a Half Myths of Investing
A reader asked if I had updated my Debunking Nine Myths of Investing, which I wrote up in 2011 and 2016, for this strange new decade. (It’s a sobering thought that the long-awaited 21st century is one-fifth over.) I had not, so I’m doing so now, in the light of the profound changes that have taken place since 2016 when …