I'm not talking about a 7-series in front of a $8000 house, I'm talking about a 10 year old Chevy Tahoe, with $15,000 rims, a $8000 paint job, Chrome finishings.

Good for you.LOVE the Rich Dad series. 

I almost dropped out when I received my series-7, which is very difficult to do. 

LOL  Been full time since '02, but used to underwrite private placements as a series-7 securities broker and trader.This is great.

(often they eat up any match)   Do you know the history of the IRA's and 4 series products (401k, 403b, 457)?  

Any engineer will tell you that "disaster", or a complete failure doesn't usually occur because of one failure...it occurs because of a series of failures all happening at the same time.Think back to that time period, and all the failures that happened at once.Was the topic here one of them?  

Account ClosedLife is based upon a series of decisions.

I actually just started a blog series on BP about it  I don't want to be "too busy" to do the things I enjoy doing. 

A component of California fire crisis is the series of insurance commissioners (going back many years) that created policies that prevented the carriers from raising rates too.

But you need a model to follow or carefully depart from, and a series of rational explanation for why that model works.