Friday, June 13, 2014

Short Takes: Giving Away Patents, Trying to Cheat Risk, and more

Here are my posts for this week:

Stock Volatility Grows Slower than Expected

Low Inflation Makes Mortgages Riskier

Here are some short takes and some weekend reading:

Elon Musk takes the remarkable step of allowing competitors to use inventions in Tesla Motors’ patents. His reasoning for doing this includes an accurate indictment of the current patent system.

Canadian Couch Potato proposes a way to estimate expected future stock and bond returns.

John Heinzl brings us a very interesting interview about financial fraud. Stan Buell is a victim himself and knows a lot about how others are victimized.

Steadyhand has a chart that puts our current interest rates into historical context.

Jason Zweig shares some sensible thoughts on dividend investing.

Million Dollar Journey answers the question of how much money you need to save monthly to reach your target retirement number.

Big Cajun Man isn’t a fan of selling leverage to widows.

1 comment:

  1. I also don't condone selling cigarettes to 12 year olds either! Have a great weekend and thanks for the inclusion.

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