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View More NewsYou stack sats. You farm yield, and you’d rather sell your car than part with your BTC. But does that mean you should bank your golden years on Bitcoin?Many retirement industry professional such as MIT finance professor Jonathan Parker say there is a sweet spot level for crypto exposure in a diversified retirement portfolio:“Yes, zero.”Parker, whose research spans portfolio choice, personal finance, retirement finance and Bitcoin, is unusually blunt about where the cryptocurrency belongs. But it’s a view shared by the average citizen.A recent survey by the National Institute on Retirement Security found that 77% of Americans consider cryptocurrency in…
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My guest today is Tanveer Ahmed. He’s a psychiatrist and the author of three books, Fragile Nation, In Defence of Shame and The Exotic Rissole. He’s just written a piece for Quillette about something he sees in his consulting room and in the data at the same time: men who have quietly stopped working and who have stopped looking for work. Not unemployed exactly, but demoralised. It’s a distinction that turns out to matter enormously, and we get into why.TranscriptEditor’s note: This transcript has been lightly edited for readability.CL: Hi, Tanveer. You’ve written a piece for Quillette this week called Men…
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