'Be Richer' By Learning From Parents' Mistakes
20.05.12
"The saneness that this money stuff is so important for young people now," he tells NPR's Neal Conan, "is that we're operating with no margin for boob, that ... 10 years ago young people had. ... You don't have the room to make mistakes."
Bissonnette gives his admonition for avoiding common financial mistakes and staying out of debt.
Interview Highlights
On lessons from his parents
"My parents were medial-class people who had financial struggles like most middle-class people do. ... My dad was going through his own monetary crisis ... really in 2004. We always joked that he was kind of ahead of his time in that regard.
"And what I saw was this, adding this improbable amount of stress that really prevented him from having, you know, in a lot of ways the quality of life that he deserved. ... I wanted to do a publication that parents could give to their kids and say, 'Here's how you can avoid falling into the traps that we fell into and have a better life than we had,' because I think that's what every parent wants for their kids."
Source: WBUR