What’s an article on someone whose life was positively affected by the stock market?
(I’m doing an essay on the stock market, and while finding pieces on lives ruined by the market were easy to find, finding the opposite is proving extremely difficult. I’ve been Googling it for a while, but the only thing that comes up is obvious spam.
And if you could name someone who was both positively and negatively influenced by the stock market, that would be even more fantastic.)
Answer :
Warren Buffet.
All those Microsoft and Home Depot millionaires (the ones who got stock options in the ’80s).
Oil man J. Paul Getty, who snatched up depressed oil stocks with his inheritance and created a new petroleum empire.
Carlos Slim (check out Wiki and pay attention to HOW he got rich)
Try your local newspaper. Only last Sun. there was an article about how someone donated $20 million to their alma mater and “no one knew she was rich”. She bought stocks in the 60s and waited 50 years. Start with the obituaries dept and see if you can find someone to help you.
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under US Stock Market.
Tags: positively affected, Stock market