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Does The Almanack of Naval Ravikant hold up?
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Jorgenson) is one of the 102 money books on The Money Shelf. It comes from the shelf’s earlier bookshop lists and the books that make specific claims. The shelf links it to 1 of the 22 claims that the book tests against official records from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Each verdict below comes from that test.
Claim 7 · The book makes this claimAssets or salary: wealth comes from owning assets
Weak diagnosisThe arithmetic is true, because wealth is held in assets and the households holding more assets have more wealth.
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