• Thought of the Day

    Thought of the Day

    2000: Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties. Put all your eggs into one basket and then watch that basket, do not scatter your shot…. The great successes of life are made by concentration.

    –Andrew Carnegie, The Pittsburg Bulletin, December 19, 1903;see

Today in Financial History

1935: The first U.S. savings bond (Series A) is issued after Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau observes that the U.S. lacks a government-sponsored savings plan like those of France and Great Britain.

C. David Chase, Investment Performance Digest (Wiesenberger, Rockville, MD, 1999), p. 275.