People can be surprisingly generous in their forgiveness for major public mistakes if they maintain their sense of humor and humility. They can even quickly bounce back and move on to greater career heights.…
Skip generation families are an unfortunately growing trend. They are defined as families where one or more minors are in a household with grandparents and possibly great grandparents, but the parents are deceased or…
The prospect of a Bear Market can be as sobering as a plunge into ice water for those who have become too accustomed to a strong Bull Market run, led in recent years by…
In 2010, Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. It was an initiative intended to address rising healthcare costs. The ACA, also known as “Obamacare”, essentially mandated that American citizens had to…
Ever since President Trump announced his reciprocal tariff trade policy, the Dow Jones Index and the S&P 500 Index have both taken sizable drops. Needless to say, many investors and retirees have seen the…
In the process of building wealth, a fundamental cornerstone strategy for success is to create and stick to a budget to monitor spending. Dave Ramsey, Suze Orman, and pretty much all successful other money…
“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.” – Robert A. Heinlein Tax collectors in Ancient China and Ancient Rome routinely enriched themselves by gaming the system.…
The Beverly Hillbillies was a popular CBS-TV sitcom that ran from 1962 to 1971. The premise was that Jed Clampett, a poor, Ozark mountain hillbilly widower, finds oil and is instantly wealthy. He is…
President Trump gave a speech from the Rose Garden after market close on Wednesday, April 2nd, which he declared as “Liberation Day.” He demonstrated how much other countries have been imposing tariffs on US…
One of the most controversial policies proposed by President Trump has been his innovative deployment of tariffs. He has already used tariffs as a negotiation tool to motivate Canada and Mexico. He has also…
It’s official: Donald Trump’s complex tax bill has been passed, just barely, through the House of Representatives. What Trump calls his “One big, beautiful bill” made it through with a 215 to 214 vote.…
Infrastructure is a crucial foundation for any kind of society attempting to expand beyond a handful of individual, nearby homesteads in order to form a community. The ability to share in the use of…
There is a Wall Street saying that stocks are for people chasing wealth while bonds are for people trying to hold onto wealth. The types of risk involved and the structure of these different…
In this age of AI and Magnificent 7 tech stock price volatility, Dividend King stocks still stand apart in the eyes of many income based and institutional investors. Their long, reliable track records for…
The story of former NBA All-Star Antoine Walker is a cautionary fiscal tale. During his NBA career, which included a 2005 Championship Ring as a member of the Miami Heat, Walker earned over $108…
Social Security has become a financial insurance policy for nearly every American citizen who has contributed the prerequisite number of years or equivalent credits into paying FICA tax. Started by President Franklin Roosevelt during…
When the subject of AI arises, much attention has been focused on Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD), as they are the best known designers of GPUs, which are…
fatFIRE adherents are those who are aggressively fast tracking themselves on a FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) strategy to attain a retirement nest egg in the high 7 to 8 figures. Some fatFIRE followers…
If one visits almost any medium to large sized mall around the globe, certain luxury brand name stores or products tend to dominate, such as: Louis Vuitton Kenzo Fendi Sephora Tiffany Christian Dior Givenchy…
Retirees assiduously scrimping and saving to contribute to their IRA, HSA, and 401-K retirement nest egg accounts have received much recent attention, as the last of the Baby Boomer generation enters retirement age. Those…
