Quartz, January 04, 2018, by Dan Kopf. “Stocks will bring you highs, but periodically will seriously let you down. Treasury bonds will keep you safe, but they won’t make you rich. Housing? That’s the best of both worlds. In rich countries, over the very long term, housing investments get you...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 04, 2018, by Gerald Braunberger. “Seit der Finanzkrise schauen viele Beobachter mit Argusaugen auf das Kreditwachstum auf der Welt. Denn ein starkes Wachstum der Kredite gilt seit der vor rund zehn Jahren ausgebrochenen Krise als ein Vorbote für eine anschließende Finanzkrise. Und das ist kein Einzelfall:...
Washington Post, January 04, 2018, by Christopher Ingraham. “The “endless inegalitarian spiral” may be coming for us sooner than we think. In his best-selling 2014 book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” French economist Thomas Piketty warned that if the already rich were able to accumulate wealth faster than economies were...
Economist, January 04, 2018. “DATA-GATHERING is the least sexy part of economics, which is saying something. Yet it is also among the most important. The discipline is rife with elaborate theories built on assumptions that turned out to be false once someone took the time to pull together the relevant...
Bloomberg, January 02, 2018, by Noah Smith. “When most people think of wealth in the modern economy, they tend to think of stocks and bonds. The word “capital” is often synonymous with corporate ownership. Land wealth, meanwhile, is often relegated to a footnote. Yes, people own houses, but vast fortunes...
Financial Times, December 21, 2017, by Gillian Tett. “The authors of “The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870-2015” — Oscar Jorda, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor — have not done this for narrow investment purposes. Instead, they hope to contribute to the academic debates which are...
European Research Council, 28th of November “Is your home a safe investment? Popular wisdom has it that, when deciding where to put your money, nothing is as safe as investing in brick and mortar. Buying a house, in the last century, has become an almost compulsory step towards “financial adulthood”,...
