The Baby Boom Bust Cycle

First things first. Were you watching Sunrise at 7.30 am on Thursday? And did it seem like Kochie, the personal finance guru and TV host, did not know that the Greek currency is the Euro? Or that it used to be the Drachma? Maybe we misunderstood. But his co-host asked about the ‘Greek Dollar’, which was bad enough.

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Source: The Daily Reckoning

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