Matthias Knab, the founder of Opalesque, an alternative investment news source, hosts a video interview on why apocalyptic thinking is usually wrong. With Laurence B. Siegel, David S. Rose, and Ric Edelman.
Niall Ferguson Says We’re Getting Worse at Dealing with Catastrophes (But He’s Wrong)
Having suffered through the worst pandemic in a century, we are keenly attuned to catastrophe. Few people are better equipped to document the history of catastrophes and our response to them, for better or worse, than Niall Ferguson, the Scottish-American historian and documentary television star whose previous books have covered everything from The Ascent of Money to Colossus: The Rise …
How Did the World Go from Poor to Rich?
After tens of thousands of years of living at a subsistence level, how did the world suddenly become so rich? By “suddenly” I mean in the last 250 years (I’m a long-term investor). However, even if you think in shorter time frames, the rise of China in the last 40 years, and of the United States, Europe, and Japan in …