And the Fletcher children had not been immune to the inertia of all rich kids, which was to lack the imagination that the money could ever possibly stop coming in. They spent their money like third-generation American children do: quickly, and without thinking too hard about it. Beamer was leveraged because of his lifestyle; Nathan had the closest thing in the family to an investment portfolio but also a predilection for buying massive amounts of insurance. And Jenny, who had always been the most disdainful of the money, had given most of hers away.
