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Speculative versus Real Growth: How to Reform the Stock Market

June 25, 2018 Homo Stupidus

There are different kinds of speculative investments, such as real estate, fine artworks, precious metals, stock shares, bonds, derivatives, and other financial investments. Although there

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The Very Strange Nature of Corporate Ownership: An Alternative to the Rumpelstiltskin Model of Raising Funds

May 18, 2018 Homo Stupidus

In the past, and even today, the stock market has played an important financial role in the economy by enabling companies to access the large

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Predatory Investment: The Rise of Financial Piracy

February 25, 2018 Homo Stupidus

According to standard economic theory, investment is good and therefore should be encouraged because, among its many other benefits, such as permitting those who save

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Financial Speculation is a Form of Gambling

February 11, 2018 Homo Stupidus

The widespread economic belief that all forms of investment are beneficial because they help develop the economy while creating jobs is becoming less and less

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All that Glitters is not Gold: Not All that is Called Investment is Investment

January 15, 2018 Homo Stupidus

When I first studied economics in university, I came across in my economics textbook the statement that savings equals investment, or S = I. This

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Speculation Fever: The Alchemy of Making Money from Money

January 11, 2018 Homo Stupidus

In a word, the great speculating fever which breaks out every now and then in the country, had raged to an alarming degree, and everybody

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