Many of us, including my age group, feel so bad that we didn’t know better or that we failed to see or act on issues of the day. It’s a little like having tickets for the front row of your favorite concert without being able to understand much of the event.
We are in
I was raised in a different time, but the basics are somewhat the same today.
I have young friends that know very little about investing; I suspect that is somewhat intentional of our system: a little like religion in that, “The more we can complicate it, then, only they can un-complicate it.”
In my
I am a member of the ill-fated Class of 2020. And I have student debt in quantities I am loath to admit. I began college in 2016 at a private university and now that I have graduated I am looking back at the path I took that’s gotten
In 1960, I went to U of Illinois- mostly because the cost was much less than other options. Little did I know at age 17 that it was, and still is, a world class institution of higher learning. As a resident, tuition was about $100 per semester. Like most of todays students, I worked
Do you know you’re a socialist? When I was young, I was taught that we should never take unemployment. I guess the idea was that it’s a bad habit that one might get hooked on. Years later in ’69 I was out of a job. I willingly took unemployment payments with gratitude.
The world has changed…quite
My experience with the US Post Office has always been good; I don’t recall ever having a letter or parcel lost except when I had made mistakes in writing the address.
Recently, my assistant renewed a subscription for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). To my surprise, she switched from home delivery to the US Mail. The
