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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I wonder if that could be part of our national debt problem. We toured Monticello in 2005 and learned that Thomas Jefferson, one of my favorite presidents died a pauper. He ended up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and only salvaged his estate by selling (after his death) his civil war memoirs.

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When the Great Recession began in 2008/2009, my boss at the time (a Vice President of the company) and her spouse consulted their financial adviser to see what they should do. personal saving rate bottomed out at around 1% in the third quarter of 2005. They asked him what would likely cause us to come out of recession.