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There are so many areas in life where we know we can reduce losses and avoid harm by taking preventative action, yet we wait and wait until it is too late. Think of disability insurance, which costs relatively little when compared to the potential loss of income if we become temporarily or permanently disabled. 

Two days ago, I took the train home from work, checked the news, and found out that people in France and Germany are starting to talk sense about the EU. A joint Franco-German working group presented ideas for a deep institutional reform of the European Union.

One area where the added value of better environmental quality is out of the question is real estate. A wide range of studies indicate that green buildings can command higher prices and higher rents. Julian Zehner has now re-examined this finding for London property between 2010 and 2021. 
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Here in the UK, there is an intense debate about the dearth of IPOs, but even in the US, ever more venture capital-backed companies are choosing to stay private for longer rather than IPO. And according to Florian Ederer and Bruno Pellegrino, there is a case to be made that the dominance of big tech companies has contributed to this trend.​

It is by now well established that investors who go through traumatic market experiences like the Great Depression or the inflation of the 1970s become permanently scarred by these experiences. Similarly, I think the market environment in which you start your career as an investor plays an important role in shaping how you invest, and a new study shows how this mechanism may work.