A few weeks ago, you’ll recall that we told you we were reading Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe. The question came up: if you were stranded on a desert island for ten years, what stock would you want to own for that ten years? Crusoe, in point of fact (although the story is fiction) was stranded on his Island of Despair for twenty-eight years-which is plenty of time for the eighth wonder of the modern world (compound interest) to work on your behalf…
October 28th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 7 comments | Continued Our DR Global Editions: 
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