Conventional wisdom in investing is often wrong. Buy and hold is an example of conventional wisdom that is not wise. You will never maximize your alpha by buying and holding. Conventional wisdom - the ...

Recently I wrote about the dangers of relying on conventional wisdom to make critical business decisions. I thought it would be fun to look at some actual examples from over the years. This “telephone ...

Conventional wisdom can be defined as ideas so accepted they go unquestioned. Unfortunately, conventional wisdom is often wrong. Two great examples are that millions of people once believed that the ...

Equities are generally considered to be growth assets, implying that equity market returns show positive correlation with economic growth. That’s the conventional wisdom held by most investors, at ...

Current and aspiring nuclear great powers (the United States, Russia, and China), together with other comparatively small nuclear weapons states (either declared or widely acknowledged as such), are ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American People believe a lot of things that we have ...