Category: Saving

Nothing but upper ups?

3 February, 2009 (10:56) | Banking, Government, Saving, Speculation, US News | No comments

In the halcyon days of the early Peanuts comic strip, Charlie brown was trying to console the perpetually-aggrieved Lucy via a bit of soothing wisdom: “Life has its ups and downs, you know.”
 

My dear, your being down is in the nature of things
 
“I don’t want downs!” shrieked Lucy.  “I want only ups!  I want to [...]

Reality bites: the challenge of saving

20 August, 2007 (10:10) | Finance, Saving | No comments

Saving, as we learn a bit didactically from Aesop’s fable, is at some level both dull and timid. 
 

Down payment?  What’s that, dude?
 
Ant-like savings seems so vapidly incremental, one modest contribution at a time. 
 

 
Try not to judge too harshly the young people whose former insipidity is so on display in this article from New [...]