Martha Myron

Apr 22, 2024 | royalgazette.com | Martha Myron

What is happening to our island? It is almost palpable - in the air, in feelings, in thoughts, and in media commentary. It is the resignation, almost despair at the increasing infrastructure disrepair, neglect of nature, and the quality of daily life slowly atrophying down life's scale. It is the ongoing frustration offset with complacency that the cost of living really is not so bad, not any worse than years ago, so just get on with it, even as everything you look at has gone up in price.

Oct 13, 2023 | royalgazette.com | Martha Myron

Dear readers! What is there to say after 25 years of writing the personal finance column for The Royal Gazette, expressly for thousands of you? Plenty as usual. Most of you know me well enough by now; I always use any opportunity to promote (well, sometimes preach on) financial learning. Born into a Bermudian family in Spanish Point during the Second World War, I grew up in a quiet, isolated world of refined manners, gentle, caring neighbours, and basic subsistence lifestyles.

Oct 6, 2023 | royalgazette.com | Martha Myron

In the third of her four-part retrospective series, Martha Harris Myron reflects on events of significant economic impact that she has chronicled. Next week, she will sign off after 25 years as the author of the Moneywise column. At the beginning of the new millennium, Bermuda's people were about to embark on a decade of dramatic events, unprecedented for this small island community.

Sep 29, 2023 | royalgazette.com | Martha Myron

This is part two of a four-part retrospective series by Martha Harris Myron, author of the Moneywise column for 25 years We Bermudians tend to suffer from the extremes of a bipolar social syndrome. At times, we've committed the national sin of arrogance, self-confidence, and complacency beyond the realm of financial reality.

Sep 22, 2023 | royalgazette.com | Martha Myron

Dear readers, this is part one of four-part retrospection featuring excerpts from some key concepts out of the 1,200-plus Moneywise articles (and more than 1.4 million words) that I have written for The Royal Gazette. Parts two, three and my last and final article will be featured over the next three Saturdays. This one was on the topic of market turmoil during the "dot-com" crash in 2000.