Reader's Write - Geriatric Investing

Many articles which purport to give financial advice start with a disclaimer. The following article merits no such legal caution but that is how I am going to begin anyway. I left school at the ripe old age of fifteen, never entered the rarefied world of the academic, have had no formal financial training and spent a good part of my life teaching Industrial Arts. Given this nondescript background any comments I make will never lead to a conviction in a court of law. What I have to offer are...