Financial Fiction

Wall Street and the Black world are agitated by a distinguished Atlanta Black banker being proposed for a seat on the Exchange. Much turmoil about those issues, though the issue, comes back to money, which John Putnam Thatcher is expert at. The usual cast of characters at the Sloan, and elsewhere on Wall Street, show up and participate.

This fourth Wall-Street mystery starring John Putnam Thatcher by Emma Lathen focuses on the car industry, the anti-trust department, and IPOs.

In Ma, What’s Investing, Si, Elz, and Wizzy help their Ma to plant a garden. Excited to make money from selling extra produce, the children talk about what they want to spend it on. Ma suggests they invest instead, but the children aren’t sure what investing means. With a charming story about a garden and two neighbors different approaches to caring for their crops, Ma teaches the children about investing. Through the analogy of planting different seeds at different times, she teaches diversity in not only the garden or investing money, but also in one’s self.