Is Free Lunch Possible

A free lunch in investing cannot exist because of the constant trade-off investors make between risk and reward. The greater the inherent risk in an investment, the greater the reward. This is a fundamental truism.

Who said theres no such thing as a free lunch?

In 1969 a columnist in the “Boston Herald Traveler” of Massachusetts attributed the saying to the economist Milton Friedman: Prof. Friedman once wrote that the one big truth in economics is that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

When economists say there is no such thing as a free lunch they mean that all economic decisions involve trade offs True or false?

Coda. There are two meanings of the expression, “There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.” The first, which is always true, is that there is scarcity, and scarcity necessitates tradeoffs. The second, which is almost always true, is that when someone offers you something “for free,” he expects something in return.