When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

~ Mark Twain

Update: This article was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance #262 posted at Personal Finance Journey. Thanks!

The financial habits of society at large over the past few decades have been, in some ways, reflective of the attitude of the 14-year-old in the opening quote. In an article entitled How Did We Get Here? I pondered the progression of social and financial values from the 1950s to the present era. I speculated that the Baby Boomers’ rejection of their parents’ social mores gave birth to some great new ideas, but that we may have allowed the pendulum [...]

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