My Son Tried to Put Me in Assisted Living to “Sell My House” — Then My Attorney Showed Him My $4.2 Million Portfolio

and investing every extra dollar with the discipline of someone who had grown up during a recession and never forgot what instability felt like. He wasn’t flashy. He bought dividend stocks in 1979 and held them through every market cycle, reinvested every payout, and kept spiral notebooks full of calculations in his desk drawer that I found after he continue reading …