By Nicholas Vardy Many Americans suffer from “historical amnesia,” a blissful ignorance of the past.
But as Nicholas Vardy shares today, there is a lot we can learn about global wealth and success by looking back at history.
I’ve been watching a course on the English historian Edward Gibbon’s six-volume magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in The Great Courses.
I view it as a 30-minute daily antidote to the relentless onslaught of COVID-19 body counts on the world’s news channels.
It’s also a welcome break from the nonstop obsession over “whether the market has bottomed this week.”
Gibbon published the …read more
