UNFILTERED STORIES OF MY GENUINE FINANCIAL JOURNEY

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Do you realize that you started a blog and didn't even introduce yourself? I know that you will forgive me. So, first of all... About me (I've always hated introducing myself at the beginning of a conversation, I find it depersonalizing): I'm jacklefowl , a business analyst operating in the investment sector in Italy. Specifically, in a government agency for investment attraction and business development. I was born in the very distant 1997 in the capital of Italy (and the world: ROME CAPUT MUNDI) to remain there until today. I recently bought my own house here. I have not always stayed in Rome, I have traveled a lot and known different cultures. I consider myself a person with enough experience to understand how the world works. Well, maybe not always... Okay, okay but... Why yet another finance blog? For endless reasons  ∞ . If I rotate infinity it becomes an 8. I list 8 then. 1) LACK OF AWARENESS I find that for such an important topic there is really too little knowledg...

Very often, people ask how and where to invest. The most obvious answer, in most cases, is "in the financial market." It might not seem so obvious, and indeed, it is not at all. The good old real estate is still seen as the safest asset; we are bound to things and objects more than ever. But not from a purely materialistic point of view: rather, we are a bit like St. Thomas, who doesn't believe unless he sees. Investing in the financial market is often perceived as dangerous . A friend of mine said the other night: "You know, I'm thinking of buying a second house because I have a good amount of money from my mother's severance pay, and my family doesn't know how to invest it. What do you think?"  I tried to explain to him that 1) turning a house into income is comparable to a job, and 2) the expected return is even lower than that of the index market (but we'll talk about that in the future).  I asked him why he hadn't considered the financia...