The Lowry Letter®

Week of 12/13/2019

We know that not all of our clients observe Christmas, but for those that do we think you will enjoy this beautiful new depiction of the Nativity (18 minutes via YouTube).

We hope that you enjoy the remainder of this week’s letter!

We learned: that “baby incubator shows,” popular around the turn of the 20^th century, helped to popularize the use of incubators for premature infants. A profit motive later turned for good.

We think: this story about a $120,000 banana is too strange to comment on.

We read: about the eruption of Whakaari, a volcano in New Zealand that has been very popular with tourists. Some visitors were severely injured or killed in the sudden eruption, which is a stark reminder of the things we don’t control.

We've been: known to review the occasional movie here, but we just can’t help it. We watched Apollo 11 on a recent flight and found it mesmerizing. Put together using archival footage, it presents the events of the moon landing using only the actual flight control dialogue pertaining to those scenes and some beautiful music.

We recommend: the Monthly Market Recap for November 2019. You can find it here.

Q: What can I get to help my kids better learn to manage their own money?

A: We continue to like the Greenlight card. It allows parents to add money to a debit card in the name of their child. They can do this via regular allowance or as needed. The expenditures are tracked and you can limit the use of funds to certain stores or categories.

Joe Jr. uses it so that his kids have a certain amount of money that they oversee, meant to cover their personal, discretionary spending each month. They know that they can make their own choices about how to use the money, but that they will not get more than that scheduled amount.

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