You can say it. Grandma Rosa was also a financial wizard who would put most of Wall Street to shame. Her strength goes some way to explaining Alvin's famous lack of sympathy for trustafarians on a credit card binge. Curiosity and luck pointed him towards a career in money. In the '60s and '70s, he said, a reverse snobbery about money meant that it was considered rather vulgar to know or even care what was in your pocket, never mind your share portfolio.
People are now much more financially aware.
So in the late '80s, when he was up to his eyes in debt and had just been hired on Wall Street he was suddenly meeting people who earned half a billion dollars. And that's what started me on this road. I wanted to know what they knew that I didn't. He soon learned. Now he buys things only if they are useful or beautiful.