Stock Futures: Know That You're Blessed (and so many others aren't)
Let's cut to the chase. Those of you who invested could be feeling financially secure. Maybe not financially comfortable, as in being able to afford a month in London or the option to trade up to a bigger house. Financially secure has become the new Promised Land. And you might have arrived as the run of the bull continues. Stock futures at 9:00 PM ET are up over 90 points. If you read the personal posts on LinkedIn and the anonymous ones on Reddit, Fishbowl, Glassdoor and Blind you realize that more and more are financially in NoWhereVille. No job. And losing hope about finding one, no matter how much it might pay lower than the job gone poof months or even years ago. In the tarot the Nine of Wands symbolizes becoming lost. How can we help them? Well, we don't have to fix things. That's not what compassion is about. And the times call for compassion. During the brutal Industrial Revolution, novelist Charles Dickens called that "the milk of human kindness."...