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    Wealth Lessons from the Year of the Rat

    by Marguerita M. Cheng, CFP®, CEO, Blue Ocean Global Wealth Feb 05, 2020 4 minutes

    The Year of the Rat is here, and in Chinese culture, rats are a sign of wealth.

    While rats are generally perceived as filthy, hungry and seedy, they are also portrayed in popular culture as resourceful and ambitious -- for example, take the pizza rat videos from the New York subway. That was a rat on a mission.

    The myth of the Jade Emperor is an example of a rat being cunning. The emperor had a party and decided the order of the animals would be determined by who arrived first. The charming rat tricked the ox into giving him a lift. As they arrived, the rat scurried and landed in front

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