Henry David Thoreau's Economic Notes
"'Says I to myself' should be the motto of my journal"
Like many millennials, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) graduated from college during an economic recession. The “Panic of 1837,” as it was called, would last for six years, leaving collapsed banks, inflation, and financial ruin for home and business owners in its wake.1
Thoreau began his professional life as a teacher in Concord’s struggling public school…
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