Zero Sum: Investing in a World Without Growth

Humanity has just fallen below replacement fertility for the first time in history. A new paper challenges everything we thought we knew about population decline and economic growth. So what happens to your portfolio when the pie stops growing?

And in the Dumb Question of the Week: Did the Black Death make Europe rich?

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