Stephen Buck lives in San Francisco and is currently enrolled in the U.C. Berkeley Extension Program seeking two certificates, one in Finance and the other in Financial Planning and Analysis. A special edition of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations becomes available in January of 2015. His formal studies in Japanese began at City College San Francisco, and continue through a variety of sources such as JapanesePod101.com and Soko Gakuen, a non-profit Japanese language school in San Francisco.