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Curtis Bedont thought he knew what it meant to be in the military. Though he spent his formative years on bases in foreign outposts, his fighter-pilot father never faced deployment.
For nearly two decades, Eric Olsen was solidly employed as a manager in the high-tech sector. But, last year his employment streak ended when he and 1.7 million other Americans were laid off.1 
Nothing in the economic corner of our culture elicits more collective fascination than the stock market. Media attention, conventional wisdom, parental advice, folklore, and scandal all seem to work overtime when it comes to “the market.” U.S. equity markets at the dawn of the twenty-first century are unique in terms of the broad participation of individual citizens—both the wealthy and middle class.