No One Knows What Stocks Will Do

It Seems Like Only Yesterday That Savers Were Dorks. They Kept Piggy Banks. They Drove Last Year's Cars. They Fished In Their Change Purses For Nickels While The Superstars Flashed Credit Cards. Today, Values Have Changed. The New Object Of Veneration Is Not Money On The Hoof But Money In The Bank - And The Dorks All Have It.

Buy A Friend; Hire A Lawyer.

Auto Insurance Is A Toll Bridge, Over Which Every Honest Driver Has To Pass.

For All The Huffing And Puffing Of The Doubters, A Home Of Our Own Is Still The Rock On Which Our Hopes Are Built. Price Appreciation Aside (and Most Houses Will Appreciate, Eventually), Homeownership Is A State Of Mind. It's Your Piece Of The Earth. It's Where A Family's Toes Grow Roots. It's Where The Flowers Are Yours, Not God's.

Quinn's First Law Of Investing Is Never To Buy Anything Whose Price You Can't Follow In The Newspapers. An Investment Without A Public Marketplace Attracts The Fabulists The Way Picnics Attract Ants. Stock Brokers And Financial Planners Can Tell You Anything They Want, Because No One Really Knows What's True. The First Corollary To Quinn's First Law States That, Even When The Price Is In The Newspapers, You Shouldn't Buy Anything Too Complex To Explain To The Average 12-year-old.