published Nov 4, 2018, 8:00:28 AM, by Jared Dillian (Bloomberg Opinion) — For as much as people have complained about the astonishingly low savings rate in the U.S., nobody has done much about it. But now there is a new movement called “FIRE,” which stands for “Financial Independence, Retire Early”

When I started Christian college in the Fall of 1986, one of the required readings for our general education classes (of which there were many) was a book by Shirley Nelson entitled, The Last Year of the War. It is a book about one young woman’s experience at an evangelical