A Wealth of Common Sense

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The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks

2025354 points585 comments Tech Industry & Business details

Wealth inequality is driving the economy.

A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble

2019308 points191 comments Tech Industry & Business details

This passive bubble talk makes no sense.

The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market

2023241 points539 comments Tech Industry & Business details

The housing market is even worse in Canada than it is here.

Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average

2021222 points413 comments Tech Industry & Business details

A reader asks: Ben, I believe you have written at least once about how surprisingly few times the stock market has grown near its long-term average in a given year. In other words, its typical annual returns are well above its long-term ~10% average, or well below. I’m searching for it on your blog site...

Three Levels of Wealth

2018203 points296 comments Tech Industry & Business details

Slack is a lot like Twitter from my vantage point. It’s a service I use all the time. It’s become an integral part of my life from both a work and social perspective. Every time I talk to someone else who uses the service they share my love for the platform. And it’s almost impossible to explain its usefulness...