I Grew Up Poor. My Mother Raised

It's Almost As If We Have Two Lobes In Our Brain. There's The Consumer And Investor Mode, And We're Doing Better And Better At That Lobe. But At The Producer And Seller Mode, We Have To Work Harder And Harder. And The Better We Do As Consumers And Investors - The Easier It Is For Us To Choose Something Better, To Exit Every Commercial Relationship - The Harder We Have To Work As Sellers And Producers. One Follows From The Other.

I Grew Up Poor. My Mother Raised A Family Of Four On Between $9,000 And $15,000 A Year.

We Already Have An Annual Wealth Tax On Homes, The Major Asset Of The Middle Class. It's Called The Property Tax. Why Not A Small Annual Tax On The Value Of Stocks And Bonds, The Major Assets Of The Wealthy?

Now, Inventiveness And Empathy, Those Qualities, If They're Together In The Same Person, You've Got An Entrepreneurial Genius. But They Do Tend To Be Slightly Separate.

Averages Don't Always Reveal The Most Telling Realities. You Know, Shaquille O'neal And I Have An Average Height Of 6 Feet.