Now for this week’s Contrary Opinion Button. Remember, you can always view all of the buttons by clicking here. Assets Segregate Liabilities Accumulate Many people learned the second part of this the hard way in 2007 and the years that followed when the over-leveraged U.S. housing market collapsed, dragging the developed world into a global recession. As to the first part, it’s been expressed in more common language as “A fool and his money are soon parted.” (We sometimes wonder how a fool and his money get together in the first place.)