woes or fortunes - the power of compounding
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, once quoted as saying that the greatest invention man has ever made is the idea of compound interest. Funny thing is, defining one single greatest invention is somewhat relative and relativity per se is what the geezer is famous of. Furthermore, relativity tackles at one point time as the center of this whole mind game. Compound interest, meanwhile, has time as one of its essential parameters. I'm not gonna talk further about Einstein's relativity and paradoxes (I've got lots of stuffs going on my head, by the way, after watching Primer on my PC and Inception in the theatre). Let's talk about the other thing, probably one of the most important foundations of money making - compounding interest. No one even knows for sure if Einstein really has something to say about compounding ( http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/interest.asp ). But everyone who fully understand how this gem works, would hardly d