Buy Low, Sell High

We all want that winning lottery ticket or insider stock tip that lets us retire early. God has some investment advice that will guarantee a big win.

It’s a common gambit in science fiction stories. Some brilliant inventor builds a time machine, uncovers a rift in the space-time continuum or stumbles into a wormhole. Taking a friend or two, the intrepid inventor pushes a few buttons, pulls some levers, and, in a flash of light, they find themselves in the future.

After walking around in the future for a little while — tasting future food, smelling future flowers, patting a future dog on the head, and finding most things are still fundamentally the same — they decide it’s time to go back home. But before they leave the future, the time travelers look around for something to take back with them.

What will it be? What’s the one thing they can bring back that will make the most difference as they return to their former life?

Let’s say the trip was just a week or two into the future. What would you choose to bring back home with you from such a trip?

Some of us surely know the answer to that...