Coming to America in search of the American Dream
Welcome to part two in my series of introductory posts. The first one was about my time in Poland and you can check it out here. If your goal is to know more about some random immigrant on the internet then start there. This second part is all about come over here and chasing that old American dream. In the last episode, I had just left Poland and was ready to start the next chapter in my life which didn’t mean much since I was 10. In this episode, I’m talking about Coming to America. It’s a good movie but it’s also what this post is about. Coming to America…
Portfolio Review – May 2018 – the stock market today
The stock market today is an interesting one. Investors have benefited from a nearly uninterrupted run up this decade. That’s why it almost seemed out of character to see the small stumble this year. The stock market can fall? What madness is this? January started off strong with the S&P 500 returning over 5%. However, February wasn’t as rosy with nearly a 4% drop and March continued that trend with the S&P 500 dropping another 3%. This quick turn into negative land didn’t make many people happy as it brought to mind the risk that comes with investing in stocks. That’s especially true if investors bought anything near the January…
Lessons learned from growing up in Poland with a little side of communism
I started this blog a while ago but I’ve never had a good introduction. In fact, my about page is really lacking. It’s time to fix that! What follows is the first of a few posts I’ll write to flesh out my about me page. It’ll be a proper introduction to the person behind the blog. In this one, I’ll cover my early years in Poland. I was a wee lad and didn’t understand much but I’ll try my best to remember the important things. The first ten years of my life were spent in Poland. Communism was all the rage back then, at least for the first few years…
