So many of us have done it. Eight years old, half a mouth full of bubble gum and our friend challenges us to a bubble blowing contest: Biggest bubble wins. So there we go, blowing harder and bigger until that bubble is double the size of our head. But still not satisfied, we try that (Continued)
It has become commonplace this time of year to bemoan the “commercialization” of Christmas. This will not be one of those times. Frankly, it seems that the growth of commercialization (by this I mean the frenetic gift-buying) is nothing more than the effect of a growing loss of our ability to express true love for (Continued)
Killing the American economy has proven quite difficult for the liberals, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying. And trying some more! Now it appears that their moronic policies are even threatening what I have described before as “the best place to store money.” This week Reuters ran an article about the dangers of Operation (Continued)
Note: This is an excerpt from an email that I sent to my clients in September 2008. I post it now as a blog for the simple reason that periodic checks on where you store your money is a prudent thing to do. This post is NOT intended to scare you or entice a run (Continued)
I hear a lot of financial advisors recommending to their clients to get out of debt. In years past, though it has been a while, I heard another set of advisors heartily recommending the strategic use of leverage. Apparently the “debt” word had become so distasteful to the general public that the pundits had to (Continued)
For all the venom that the modern-day press and “pundits” pour forth upon religion, it sure seems to have well diagnosed the root cause of so many of the ills of society. For example, I read this week in Isaiah 53:6, “All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his (Continued)
Aristotle said that “happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” How he deduced this is a rather fascinating study, but that will have to be left for another time. Still, it remains true that we humans seek happiness, but far too few of us seek (Continued)
What if you lived to ripe old age of 107? Would your retirement accounts hold up? Consider the interesting case of Leonard McCracken who has done just that. Retired for 41 years, he has managed to live on his personal savings, a lifetime annuity and social security. So what can we learn from Leonard? Well (Continued)
NOTE: This article was first published in January 2008. Are you a bull or a bear? Gosh, in today’s market I think most of us would prefer to be a mouse and hide in the back of the cupboard with our little piece of cheese! Frankly I hate the propaganda mill that is known as (Continued)
Recently in a piece written for Morningstar.com, Christine Benz had this to say about “When It Pays to Hire A Financial Professional”: Paying a financial planner an ongoing fee to handle every aspect of your financial plan can make sense if you’re extremely time-pressed or if your finances are particularly complicated. Ditto if you’re very (Continued)