Joseph Schumpeter, the famous economist who served as Austrian minister of finance in 1919, observed that the
capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses … It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.
Ed McQuarrie talks the REAL History of Stocks and Bond performance.
Heading to Maine early tomorrow morning for some fun in the sun! :)
In the meantime, read this piece by Andrew Biggs.
See you next week!
andrew biggs @biggsag writes...you read. This is not negotiable
https://littleknownfacts.substack.com/p/the-two-charts-any-social-security
We'll review various 25 year time frames under the "harvest your gains retirement plan"
Here's the link! https://vimeo.com/event/6194932