While this idea might sound strange, it is interesting to note that claims combining investing with some sort of soceital justice argument has been received increased attention in recent years. Look at the low-cost (and easy access, low entry requirements etc.) broker Robin Hood (https://robinhood.com/us/en/) that is currently shaking up competition on the (U.S.) online broker market. Or Zorro (https://www.zorro-trader.com/), a very useful software to test and implement trading strategies. The latter has as their slogans indeed the famous “Take… Continue reading Robin Hood and Zorro – Investing to take from the rich and give to the poor?
Investment Guides & Articles
Third Investment Strategy: Future Options
A nice learning tool: https://www.tastytrade.com/tt/learn Equity Index Futures E-mini S&P 500 Index Futures (/ES) E-mini Nasdaq 100 Index Futures (/NQ) E-mini Dow 30 Index Futures (/YM) E-mini Russell 2000 Index Futures (/RTY) Interest Rate Futures 90 Day Eurodollar Futures (/GE) 2 Year T-Note Futures (/ZT) 5 Year T-Note Futures (/ZF) 10 Year T-Note Futures (/ZN) US 30 Year T-Bond Futures (/ZB) Foreign Currency Futures Euro FX Futures (/6E) Japanese Yen (/6J) British Pound (/6B) Canadian Dollar (/6C) Australian Dollar (/6A)… Continue reading Third Investment Strategy: Future Options
Ethical behaviour, your values, and the role of Investing
This blog is based on the idea that investing is not a (merely) question about profit maximization or making money, but sees it from a rather societal and broad perspective. One important dimension of one’s life consists in certain core values one might embrace or define as one’s personal values according to which to live one’s life. We all have different goals and priorities, some might pursue maximization of wealth, many consider laws enacted by governments as boundaries, others engage… Continue reading Ethical behaviour, your values, and the role of Investing
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