A Father’s Financial Advice Is Still Worth Heeding — Even In Washington

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Bruce Yandle is a distinguished adjunct fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, dean emeritus of the Clemson College of Business and Behavioral Sciences and a former executive director with the Federal Trade Commission. My father did not spend a lot of time advising me on how to manage my affairs.