Tax reasons for investing

Taxation is an important, complex, and necessary issue. As they say: the only two certain things in life are death and taxes. While the overall role and purpose of taxation (basically, providing public goods and redistribution) are important, one striking observation is that labour and capital income are in most countries taxed differently. While personal labour income is taxed typically at a increasing marginal tax rate, capital income and gains are in most cases taxed at a fixed capital gains… Continue reading Tax reasons for investing

Planned posts for the coming months

Just to give an idea of the topics covered and features planned for this blog here a list of the coming posts (about two posts per months, so by end of 2020 the website should be most complete) and developments: Economics of Investing The assumptions of the First Welfare Theorem in Economics Inflation and real and nominal interest rates Taxation of labour and capital income Investing and its implications for inequality The role of capital owners and their responsibility in… Continue reading Planned posts for the coming months

About this website

This website follows a three-fold aim based on its name, good2invest.com, since we believe that It is good 2 invest for a societal/economic perspective! You need to be smart and good 2 invest! You should choose something good 2 invest! or put it differently: From a scientific social and economic perspective, it is good 2 invest! We should spend a minimum time and effort to become smart and good 2 invest You should choose something that is “good” 2 invest… Continue reading About this website