I Am Quite The Mike

T he old adage always says "the victor writes the history".  I am coming to question the universality of this statement.  It seems to me sometimes the historical account pushed into record recounts in great details all the atrocities committed by the victor, while simultaneously washing the vanquished in guiltless attire:  Their atrocities never to be remembered in common society, especially not in polite society.  Any public evidence of such destroyed or removed to the fullest extent possible, and where impossible to erase:  Ignored, defaced, and buried. ... And because now some are trying to ascribe some devilish horrible vision of myself, I assure you I speak not of any specific person or people.  The concept stands for itself.  Very few societies are guilt-free.  I just find it interesting that as time goes by I find more historic reminders that no conflict is one-sided, more often than not, both sides were wrong, and most astonishingly there are those who many, many life

This article contains a promotional link. The author of this article is not a financial professional of any sort.  He is also not licensed to provide any manner of advice, financial or otherwise, by any governing body.   It's funny, I think, how my education touched on many things, math, literature, science, and history, I never really learned a lot about how money works until I was out of high school.  Even then, while that education came at the hands of a most excellent math teacher, it was not complete. My first lessons about how money works were all about interest and the magic of compound interest.  It's true, compound interest turns small quantities of money into enormous quantities of money.  What's not really expressly shared is you can only make money via compound interest if you are the bank.  A savings account will never keep up with inflation.  In order to make money with compound interest, you need to be making at least prime, if not 10x prime.  With most "