Money: Investment Clubs
Investment clubs don’t get the press they did when stocks boomed in the 1990s. But they still offer a wonderful opportunity for new investors, young or old, to dip a toe into the stock market and learn how to invest in stocks.
      
The author tells the history of the Freedman’s Savings Bank, how it grew much too quickly, why it failed and the impact on Black America. The Freedman’s Bank offered a safe depository for formerly enslaved people, expanded quickly and gained millions in deposits – mostly ranging from $5 to $50. But inexperience and corruption doomed it to failure, costing may of the small depositors their savings.


