[Allocate less to equities at retirement, but maintain enough to benefit from a remaining investment timeframe of about 20–30 years.]
[Hold bonds in your local currency. Exposure to other currencies adds risk to what should be a safe-haven asset.]
[The Dow (with 30 commitee-selected entries) and NASDAQ 100 (only non-financial) are poorly diversified and not a gauge of the broad market.]
Reading is an encounter with possible worlds.
[Authoritarians don't like people reading because it increases the number of imaginable worlds contradicts the idea that there is only one version of history.]
[People eager to frame their problems through other people's identity don't want to question the underlying system, only taking a stance on banking through the lense of bankers being Jewish, or on protection of women through the lense of offenders being Muslim.]
[Choosing between "the lesser of two evils" in democratic elections reflects a continuous oscillation between radical pro-oligarch and moderate pro-oligarch where both further the same agenda. The former capitalizes on our frustration with the system by promising meaningful change and enacting laws by force to server the wealthy. The latter attempts to sooth our disappointment of authoritarian overstep by promising a return to sanity but following the laws created by the former.]
