Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.
Kluger, Jeffrey. "The Science of Spending." Time, Time Inc., 2008.
Gallatin was Secretary of the Treasury and has he came into office he discovered that the United States did not have enough money to last the month. To stave off national bankruptcy, Gallatin approached Stephen Girard, then the richest man in America who himself bought and he offered to sell United States bonds to his friends and associates at a very low rate. He saved the young nation.
Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is a senior writer at Time magazine and author of nine books on various topics, such as The Narcissist Next Door (2014); Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (2005); The Sibling Effect (2011); and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (1994). The latter work was the basis for Ron Howard's film Apollo 13 (1995). He is also the author of two books for young adults: Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats (2007) and Freedom Stone (2011).
