Have you ever gone to an expensive restaurant that appeared on the outside to be quite sophisticated and refined only to find after dining there that the food itself was less than impressive? I think sometimes the financial services industry can have a similar strategy of dazzling people with their [...]
Happy 2024! It is proverbial to end one year and begin a new one with a certain sense of optimism. However, since there seem to be so many diverse matters of our world about which to worry, I would like to address this condition. In President Jimmy Carter’s words from [...]
Last week I read a statistic in the Ney York Post that blew mind. As soon as I heard it, I knew I had to opine on the subject. Believe it or not 36% of New York City public school students are chronically absent from class which means they are [...]
My wife, Karen, and I just returned from our longest trip of 49 plus years together. We flew to Amsterdam and traveled by small cruise ship the Rhine, Main, and Danube rivers and the interconnecting canals of Europe. We visited Germany, Austria, and Hungary, ending in Budapest, over 1250 [...]
For regular readers of my column, you may be aware that two weeks ago I paid tribute to the workers of America in a special Labor Day article. In it I expressed a need to further lift up the working class and reduce the widening gap between the middle and [...]
Ever since inflation took hold of our economy in mid-2021 Federal Chairman Jerome Powell has consistently said his desire is to use interest rate hikes to softly land the plane that is the US economy. So far, in this effort I would say he has been successful in this attempt [...]
Will they or won’t they? That is the question I have been asking myself as I continue to watch feuding tech moguls, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg tease a pay-per-view cage fight between them. mark-zuckerberg-cage-fight-vs-elon-musk Considering the significant public interest in this, I have no doubt it would be one [...]
While I myself am not a huge soccer fan, I know many of you out there are. With the Women’s World Cup semi-finals happening as we speak, I’m sure some of you are getting up early or staying up late to watch all of the action live. Womens Soccer World [...]
Last week my family and I went on a summer vacation. While traveling I was amazed to discover just how many merchants no longer accept cash as a form of payment. This transition to a cashless society has been coming for a while but the pandemic certainly sped the whole [...]
