The Motley Fool You Have More Than You Think
The Foolish Guide to Personal Finance
Introduction
Our Fairy-Tale World
Once upon a time there was a prosperous country called the United States of America. America had fertile land, sunstruck coasts, purple mountains, and a happy people. She sported free public education, expensive but effective health care, and high-speed data networks anyone could tap into with a computer and a modem. In America more than any other place ever, you could do and say what you wanted, and your destiny was largely -- to an almost disturbing degree -- in your own hands. In fact, despite the protestations of whichever political party happened to be out of power at the time, America was the envy of the world.
But there was one thing that Americans lacked. Despite their comparativel ... read full excerpt from The Motley Fools You Have More Than You Think: The Foolish Guide to Personal Finance ebook
