{"id":7478,"date":"2015-01-01T05:29:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T05:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/why-are-italians-so-good-at-personal-finance\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T05:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T05:29:30","slug":"why-are-italians-so-good-at-personal-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/why-are-italians-so-good-at-personal-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Italians So Good at Personal Finance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why are Italians and Americans of Italian extraction &#39;over-represented&#39; &#8212; to use, sarcastically, an ambiguous word whose very ambiguity endears it to the politically correct &#8212; among the fiscally responsible?&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scordo.com\/personal-finance\/on-what-italian-americans-immigrant-personal-finance-tips.html\" target=\"_self\">Ten reasons.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Sadly, two highly-valued male friends of mine, one a philosopher who does not hike and the other a hiker who does not philosophize, are either clueless or inattentive when it comes to personal finance, like most Americans.&#0160; Why do they lack basic common sense about matters monetary?&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Do I enjoy a species of &#39;white privilege,&#39; namely, &#39;Italian privilege?&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">My use of &#39;privilege&#39; here is of course derisive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are Italians and Americans of Italian extraction &#39;over-represented&#39; &#8212; to use, sarcastically, an ambiguous word whose very ambiguity endears it to the politically correct &#8212; among the fiscally responsible?&#0160; Ten reasons. Sadly, two highly-valued male friends of mine, one a philosopher who does not hike and the other a hiker who does not philosophize, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/why-are-italians-so-good-at-personal-finance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Are Italians So Good at Personal Finance?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}