If the Devil Takes the Hindmost, Who Will the Devil Take in 2025–2030?

Lessons for today's market in speculation, uncertainty, and greed from Edward Chancellor's classic book.

When I first started my investment and business career in 1999 and knew absolutely nothing and read even less, one of the first books (still in my top 20) I read was The Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor.

“The devil take the hindmost” is an old proverb meaning those who lag behind (financially or otherwise) will be left to suffer the consequen…