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Burton Malkiel - Applying 'A Random Walk' to the World Today | #483

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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The Importance of Investing for the Long Term Discipline

A lot of people think what you ought to do is privatize social security. I worry about that, and it's potentially just enormously risky. What if we did the following? We said, what, we've now got a little over 6% payroll tax that you pay on your salary. Let's increase that tax by 1%. It's going to go for a private plan that you will have in addition to social security. And that's what I would like to see President Biden do. Because I know darn well how hard it is to say, this is the thing I would really like to do.

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