ICYMI – February 8, 2012
If you are like me you try to read as many articles, blogs and books as possible but just cannot catch all of them. “In Case You Missed It” is my way of pointing out a few “reads” that I think are too good to miss.
Feet Don’t Lie: Millenials and Their Shoes – Alvin Reid
Every year I take our daughter Hannah to a meal for Valentines Day. Dad-daughter meals have marked our relationship since her early childhood. Last year at Valentines we ate at IHOP, our favorite. After our meal we stopped by a skateboard store she loves, not because she likes skateboards, however. She loves the store because it sells TOMS, the cloth shoes you wear with no socks that are so ugly they are almost cute. Here is why Hannah, and our son Josh, and many other millennials I know love TOMS: when you buy a pair, they donate a pair to a child who has no shoes. Hannah has several pair and displays her TOMS banner proudly on her car. She had me buy a pair for myself, but since I am 52 years old I prefer to wear mine with socks.
Gen-Y: The Kids Are All Right – Carolyn T. Geer
There’s been a lot of hand wringing lately about how investors—young ones especially—are shunning stocks.
Generation Y investors arguably can assume the most equity risk in pursuit of the higher potential returns because they have the most time to ride out the market’s ups and downs.
Yet 40% of these 18- to 30-year-olds say they will never—never—feel comfortable investing in the stock market, according to a survey by MFS Investment Management.
In fact, fewer Gen Y investors say they are willing to take big financial risks than either Generation X investors, who were born a decade before them, or their parents, who were born in the 1950s and ’60s, according to a study by the Investment Company Institute (ICI).
Sex-trafficking at the Super Bowl – Justin Holcomb
Few of them will know about the horrific crimes that will be committed during and around the event in Indianapolis.
The Super Bowl is the most-watched program on TV every year. But many people don’t know about its dark underside: the Super Bowl, like other large sporting events, is a magnet for sex trafficking and child prostitution. It is possibly the largest sex trafficking event in the US. As more than 100,000 football fans descend on Indianapolis, sex traffickers and pimps will also arrive in droves to take advantage of the demand.
