There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, thats spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. – Ron Chernow
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. Theyve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. – Ron Chernow
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they dont talk back, they dont sue, and they dont have angry relatives. – Ron Chernow
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before. – Ron Chernow
Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because its shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not. – Sebastian Junger