“Questioning yourself is hard.” These are the opening words of Ken Fisher’s latest book, The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Investing Mistakes Everyone Else Makes, and I am inclined to agree.  Being a good investor requires two contradictory sets of skills.  You must be confident and independent minded; but...Read More

In “Human and Economic Evolution,”  I discussed how natural selection is alive and well among humans, and used such examples as genetic resistance to malaria among Africans and high aptitudes in the maths and sciences among Ashkenazi Jews.  Today I’d like to discuss an interesting finding reported in The Economist that is relevant to the...Read More