[Sonny M]

Personally, I always thought we should seek a more "user friendly" system to make investing easier so as to create more investors ala Reagan in the 80's.

I'd like to see over 100,000,000 investors in our economy one day.

Down to it being normal for high school kids and just about anyone to easily buy shares and invest.

[James Cannon]

As we all know, the stock markets have returned between 9 and 11% annually on average. The very school kids you refer to would understand investing because it would become part of their education...I totally agree with you, who prepares us for this?

It is time to activate the American people and gain solutions to this and other related problems, and that is what our new npo is about to do. We are attempting to find a nonpartisan solution to many different reform issues. Common sense rarely occurs as the extremes of either side, the best solutions come from the middle ground.

Thanks for your response.

[adamsjas]

Personally, I always thought we should seek a more "user friendly" system to make investing easier

It really can't get much simpler than it is right now.

Pick any brokerage company, they all have on line investing capability, with research tools, tutroials, and all. Even free Finance.yahoo.Com has all the stats on every stock you could want. Don't have time for the research? Then buy Mutual funds with good track records and let the pros so the work.

A 6th grader could do it, and some have, for class projects. Some with Monopoly money, some with real cash.

Anyone who has time and intelligence to read FR has the means to manage a nest egg on-line.