Five Ways to Get Investors Started Young

The financial markets are more important than the insanity taught at universities. Miss these important lessons... and you'll end up complaining about the wrong things.

Dear Fellow Expat:

She’d go on to become an editor at the New York Times.

But right then - sometime in 2002 - she’d gotten into an argument with a conservative friend over who knows what. I was in the kitchen, trying to find cocktail napkins.

That’s when she burst in. My friend was behind her, “All I’m saying is…”

And with that… she sat on the kitchen floor, put her fingers in both ears and screamed at the top of her lungs - eager to drown out the political argument.

I can still hear that scream - and it’s possible it will echo through the streets of New York next week, depending on the election.

As I said, she’d go on to work at the New York Times.

The state of journalism today - is the same as it was back in college for me.

It was just that the sensationalism was more localized to the schools themselves.

After the Bush victory in 2000, I watched my first-year class (and a few professors) engage in an epic meltdown. A lot of the rhetoric was similar to today’s - but again, it was only …