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Why the stock market?
What topics are covered in this chapter?
Are you in favour of more money?
Anyone who has money to save and invest should put a large part of it into the stock market. The reason is boringly simple: the stock market generally does much better than any other reasonably safe investment, such as putting money in a bank or building society. In fact, there is considerable evidence that bank and building society deposits do not beat inflation for long periods, and over the long term (30 years or more) such deposits are likely at best to outperform inflation by less than 1 per cent. For this reason, many ...
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