Why No One Pays Attention to Economists

This article from Time Magazine is priceless. Two econ professors are suggesting that young people use 2-1 leverage to buy stocks for their long time horizon retirement portfolios. Apparently their Monte Carlo simulation didn’t include all of the margin calls you would get during every drawdown. Long on IQ perhaps, but short on common sense.

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