Archive for February, 2009

If I hadn’t invested…

During the last quarter of 2008, Like many Americans, I lost a lot of money in the stock market. Sometimes, I wish I had done something else with my money over the past two years. Although hindsight is always 20/20, it sometimes is useful to make a retrospective analysis. While I could have made better [...]

Posted on February 26, 2009 at 9:01 pm by adampowell · Permalink · Comments
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Economics in One Lesson

Proven scientific facts remain rather invariant over time. While there are occasionally new discoveries which overturn prior findings, if no such discoveries in a field have occurred it is safe to continue to use prior findings. Economics, like chemistry or physics, is a science that works consistently over time. As a result, it is possible to [...]