When I closed my eyes and just listened to the conversation, it was 40 years ago in the fourth floor walk-up that the four of us shared in Allston. Here was Johnny’s in-depth analysis of almost any business subject; Jim’s minute-by-minute assessment of the vagaries of the stock market; Mark’s perspective on the woes of […]
We missed the Fourth of July fireworks on Bailey Island last weekend for the first time in a long time. It was just too damp and foggy – it didn’t seem like mid-summer in Maine – and they faked us out a bit by scheduling it on the Third. However, the Ice Cream Social at […]
When I started this solo trek as Financial Managers Trust in 1983, I never really doubted that I could earn good money on my own. And before I was very far down the road, I got over being aggravated at paying both the employee’s and the employer’s share of the Social Security tax (a total […]
We had fought the good fight, but it wasn’t to be. Nine months earlier my partner and I had realized – after two years of sacrifice – that the business wasn’t big enough to support both of us, so I left to establish Financial Managers, and Don took over the whole show. I retained my […]