Andrew Goodwin: Flipping the narrative on successful investing

At the risk of making yours truly appear irredeemably ancient, it's time to discuss pinball. As some readers may recall, this was a popular pastime in the long-ago era before Space Invaders and Pac-Man broke the mould.  I have in mind two questions. The first: What's the key to playing pinball well? The second: How do pinball skills relate to the effective delivery of financial advice? Bear with me as I try to come up with some answers…  We probably ought to begin by winding back to 1976 and a court hearing in New York. It was in this setting that the city's decades-long ban on pinbal...