If you’re a good investor, the more leverage you can use, the more money you will make. And the key to using leverage safely is having a very efficient portfolio. Over the next three days, Porter will demonstrate to readers how to do this
What you are looking for in smart, conservative investing is the very small number of businesses that will compound your wealth over a very long period of time, at market-beating rates. How many stocks can do this? Porter provides answers.
Social Security and Medicare’s unfunded liabilities total over $100 trillion! People believe, falsely, that these promises are funded in some way, that the money they’ve paid into the system over the years will be there for them. That’s all nonsense. The money was never invested. And you don’t own the rights to anything.
The LA Lakers NBA basketball team was recently sold for $10 billion. It sounds like a great deal, since the seller paid $68 million for the team in 1979. But that investment has underperformed the S&P 500 by about $3 billion. A similar investment into other great businesses would have made even more.
Over time, the establishment of stablecoins will lead to a complete revolution in banking. This is like Netflix coming for Blockbuster. All of the reasons physical banks needed to exist just disappeared.
Stablecoins are a threat to world’s payment networks like Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal, but they are a far bigger threat to banks. If you can use and hold stablecoins safely, you simply won’t need a bank anymore.