In planning a home for a family, perhaps the most urgent single requirement is a place to sleep. But if the family have any choice, how long will they put up with nothing but bedrooms? For comfortable living, a family needs several rooms, each one designed and equipped for a different use. […]
Borrow or Sell? For many people, being short of cash is chronic. But we assume here that an investor is usually able to keep his expenses within bounds. And yet, no matter how carefully he plans, sometimes he finds himself needing to spend consider ably more money than his current income […]
With all the hullabaloo about speculation, an amateur in vestor may naturally assume that Wall Street is strictly for gamblers. This is a great pity, because probably a long-term investor can get better results in the stock market than else where, provided he follows a few fairly simple rules. Also, it would […]
Speculators Preferred Apparently most people enjoy gambling, and indulge them selves at least occasionally and within limits. For those will ing to risk hundreds of dollars or more at a time, and who like a complicated game, the stock market is ideal for gam bling or, as it is more politely […]
How Big? A number of American corporations are so big that it takes some imagination to realize how large they really are. The Bell Telephone System has more revenue and employees than the combined governments of New York State, New York City, and all of the city, county, and other local […]
Unless we are able to exercise a considerable degree of control over our emotions, civilized life is impossible. In a typical family, by the time a baby is a year old he has begun to learn that staging a tantrum does not always bring him favorable results. And an adult can hardly […]
Explaining corporate stock is made easier by glancing first at some forms of business that do not have shares of stock. In the simplest type of business organization, one and the same man is sole owner, proprietor, manager, boss, and worker; he is “the whole works.” In occupation he may be, […]
What is the difference between 3 per cent and 6 per cent annual income on an investment of $1,000? For just one year, the answer is easy: it’s $30. And as long as the in come is spent each year, while the principal amount re mains unchanged, the answer is the same, […]
#TITLE# How To Buy Life Insurance Group Plans Before buying an individual life-insurance policy, a man had better find out to what extent he is covered automati cally or can obtain low-cost insurance through his being a member of a group. In the United States the group life-insurance program […]
Who Needs Insurance, and When “If anything should happen to me…” With that idea planted in a man’s head, he is an easy mark for a life-insurance salesman. This vague phrase gets around the ugly word “death”; and combined with pleasant phrases such as “security” and “building an estate,” it […]
