Overwhelmed by the idea of stock market investing?
I was too!
We have been brainwashed and monkey-minded by education systems, advertisers, and middle-class experiences to see stock market investing as a thing for the rich or a complicated thing.
This is an absolute falsehood.
Have you wondered why the investment subject is not a mandatory or elective course in our high schools and colleges?
The very “purpose” of going to school is Acquired Literacy – to build the cognitive ability to develop and train in all manner of skills…
earn a living AKA get paid, to comfortably afford necessities such as shelter, clothing, and food….and much more than this basic!
Sadly, there is a deep food and housing insecurity in North America today, as most families live on the edge of poverty. See this recent beautiful article title: Food Security in North America: The urgent Challenge from New Society Publishers
How do you play a game, more so win in the game, if you are not trained?
Zero clue on the principles, stakeholders, tools and tactics of the game?
Winning with money is a game…
As Adam Smith in his seminal book of 1967, The Money Game, contended that all the books on money speak only of economics and statistics, and are only half of the game.
Financial Literacy and Money Gardening – Investing must be made a mandatory or elective subject in high schools.
See this beautiful article on the benefits of investing and how those not investing could be missing out in millions of dollars….
By James Brumley, posted in the I Nasdaq Article column, writing for the Motley Fool
Are you familiar with the story of Ronald Reid and Richard Fuscone, a former top executive of Merrill Lynch?
Can you see the power of staying invested long-term and the compounding magic?
Are you familiar with the Rice and Chessboard story?
An ancient Indian story illustrating the values of charity, the power of habit, and compounding?
The stock market is the money plantation, a carefully guarded secret of the wealthy over the years.
The governments and banks need more of the financially blind worker bees, consumer loan interest, and taxpayers at every point in history until a consumer revolution occurs.
Have you wondered why the rich keep getting richer and the poverty gap keeps widening?
“Over the 210 years I have examined stock returns, the real return on a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks has averaged 6.6 percent per year.”
Jeremy J. Siegel, Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies
I was stupid and financially illiterate, and couldn’t start investing when I had the cash flow, now I have little or no wiggle room to invest because of consumer debt payments
The only stock investment I have is my biweekly pension contribution of about $170
Start investing today!
