I managed to save a bit. That, compounded by the genius of Mr. Buffett and Mr. DeMuth and Mr. Hanley and Mr. Au and my own ventures, gives me some leeway before the axe falls. I may be able to live a life of slow descent into desuetude after all.
I just hope that I don’t feel so desperate that I blow my head off, as one of my favorite people did last year because of his money worries. That really happened and it reverberates every hour in my brain, writes Ben Stein in
The American Spectator.
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