To buy gold is to withdraw resources from the wealth and information creating private sector. That’s because consumption is in most instances a confirmation of knowns, of the exchange of resource access (money) for existing wealth… Continue reading on Forbes.
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“Rather than investing in buildings, I want to invest in the people working in the buildings.” That’s a paraphrase of investor David Bahnsen. Bahnsen’s comment comes to mind when thinking about retirement, and particularly the Social Security portion of retirement. Would readers prefer that their at least legally mythical (see Flemming v. Nestor) Social Security
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Critics of Social Security, and there’s much to criticize, use the lack of a “lock box” or actual “trust fund” to make their emotional cases for the program’s looming insolvency, reduced benefits, or both.
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Free traders have long properly believed that the more people in countries are interconnected in an economic sense, the more that peace becomes likely given the immense cost of war.
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Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis are law professors at Yale and UVA. Their area of expertise is retirement, and as they see it, the typical employee paying into retirement funds must be saved from himself. The professors want force to make sure the hoi polloi aren’t “misusing” their menu of investment options. Naturally it’s lost on Ayres and Quinn that the collective knowledge of those enrolled in retirement plans vastly exceeds theirs. Fearful that the mouthbreathers will go all in on gold, they’re out to make sure that experts take the proverbial wheel from those who don’t know as much as they imagine they know.
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