My passion for economics begun during my eighth grade year. Being a kid who had no financial obligations, I saved up every dollar I received for a few years and had amassed a decent sum of money. My dad suggested that I invest monies in short-term stock options to build up more money, so I agreed to give him five-hundred dollars. My dad controlled the brokerage account, but we worked together in finding wise investments. Even though I did not have control of the account, there was never an investment made without my approval. The inverse exchange traded fund options went up to a thousand dollars, and then up to two thousand dollars. As one would assume, a little thirteen year old kid was excited about this amount of money. From that point on,
