Monthly Archives: September 2021

The Falling Man : How 9/11 Broke America’s Financial Psyche

My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: Everyone old enough remembers exactly what they were doing on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. If all of our mornings did not start out the same way…. we all ended our evening the same way. Shock and disbelief that for the first time since the Civil War…enemy combatants had […]

The Grapes Of Wrath: How A 3rd Grader Destroyed The Economy!!

My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: In Mr. Olson‘s third grade class I was one of the star students. In order to incentivize the other students to get good grades Mr. Olson introduced an economic system based on “schnickles“. As students turned in their homework and grades were handed out, we would each get schnickles. Obviously the […]