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I've recently read a very interesting article regarding the value of debt in retirement from The Edge Markets - Personal Wealth , and I must say the article really open my mind on debt and it gives me new idea on optimizing wealth in future. I like the way the writer end the article with "“All debt is, is a magnifier of investment decisions that you make. If you make good decisions, debt will make them look better. If you make bad decisions, debt will make you look worse." The article is as follows..... CONVENTIONAL thinking would have it that to live a happy life, you must be debt-free in your retirement years. The idea is that you should be reducing your risk and focusing solely on preserving your hard-earned capital. But Thomas J Anderson, author of  The Value of Debt in Retirement: Why Everything You Have Been Told Is Wrong , tells  Personal Wealth  in a Skype interview that he believes this mantra is one of the greatest myths about retirement ever...

Yesterday, the Kuala Lumpur High Court today dismissed the Home Ministry's application to stop The Edge Weekly and The Edge Financial Daily from resuming publication, pending the outcome of its appeal.  The Edge publication can resume pending outcome from appeal Among other things, Asmabi had said that Zahid was himself "in doubt" on whether The Edge had published its articles by relying on allegedly unverified information on online news portals, especially Sarawak Report. In the legal challenge filed by The Edge, the home minister and the Home Ministry’s secretary-general are named as respondents. A hearing date has yet to be fixed at the Court of Appeal for the government's appeal against the September 21 ruling, Loke said. She also disagreed that the High Court's decision today would render the government's appeal academic. "It is not academic because we are still going to argue that the decision of minister is right. If we ar...