Wealth & Risk

myopia of compound interest

  1. 24 May 2019

    The myopia of compound interest

    Compound interest is magical, but there's a myopia around it. The Barefoot Investor and others lean on 10% annual returns to make the "start early or you're sunk" case — at 5% the chart looks very dif…

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