The Contrarian Investor: Encouraging investment: A daunting challenge

I have a bee in my bonnet about our ludicrous investment culture.

It is a sorry state of affairs when I have to report there is more interest in ‘investment’ in all its guises in allegedly socialistic Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands than in arch-capitalistic Britain. We have the market we deserve because we Brits are frankly uninterested in money (except via housing) and fearful of stuff that looks risky. We might be a world centre for high finance but, when it comes to low finance, we are quite simply naïve Candides bitterly blaming everyone else while sitting on vast housing portfolios that keep rising in value. We somehow assume we ca...