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October 11, 2021

The case for being boring with your money

  • It's perfectly fine to manage your money in a mostly yawn-inducing way. Here's why.
    • By SARA RATHNER
    NerdWallet

    The idea of gaining wealth in flashy ways isn't new. After all, Charles Ponzi, for whom Ponzi schemes were named, defrauded investors more than 100 years ago with a get-rich-quick scheme built on a foundation of lies. Today, speculative investments, multilevel marketing companies and other risky efforts to turn a profit still lay seductive traps.

    You can always leave your money alone in an interest-bearing account and let time do its thing, but that doesn't exactly make for exciting party conversations, does it? So we open and close accounts. We invest in hot stocks and sell them at the first sign of bad news. We mess with our money because, in our minds, growing wealth is supposed to take effort.


     
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