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The Grass Is Always Greener Until You Mow the Lawn
By Ivory Johnson, CFP, ChFC - November 30, 2009

A number of years ago my older sister brought her chronically underachieving boyfriend home from college and announced that she planned to get married, apparently under the assumption that she could turn him into a good man. My father asked his love struck daughter to calculate zero times zero, then five times zero and finally one hundred times zero. His point was simple: anything multiplied by zero will always be zero. The United States government has been an active participant in the affairs of private enterprise, taking the "free" out of "free markets." But who am I to complain - I sort of like big government.

I have no formal musical training, but I certainly know what sounds good on the radio. The S&P 500 has increased by 57% from the lows of March 2009, emerging markets have doubled and Americans are saving money again. How could the collapse of the economy been so imminent?

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