Hopefully you all had a wonderful holiday season filled with many of the traditions you and your family enjoy. One new holiday tradition that I can do without however, is the threat of a government shutdown that seems to come back every December as Washington struggles to pass an annual [...]
This past Friday, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released its job numbers for September. To the surprise of many experts, the labor market added 254,000 jobs. This was substantially higher than the projected 150,000. Revisions to July and August numbers resulted in an additional 72,000 jobs for those months [...]
Two weeks ago I wrote about socialist thought creeping into our American life and psyche. One gentleman took my point about unconstitutional actions, like President Biden’s foolhardy and self-serving attempts to forgive everyone’s student loans, as a sign I disapprove of poor people. He proceeded to give me examples of [...]
One of the topics of American culture surfacing recently is that of increasing percentages of young people embracing socialism as a desirable policy for our future, as much as 40 plus percent. This is not terribly surprising to me since students do not most likely receive much if any financial [...]
Have you heard which party is serious about slowing down the rate of debt we owe? Trick question, right? You have not heard because the answer is, Neither one! Even though I am an optimist at heart, it is my realistic opinion that we have reached and passed the point [...]
Today I am writing more basic philosophical thoughts about investing. What are your goals for your money? One primary goal for most people is and will be to multiply your money for present and future financial needs and desires. But another goal may be to promote a particular area of [...]
One of the biggest stock market success stories of all time has been the rise of Tesla. From its initial public offering in the summer of 2010 to its high point in late 2021 the EV company stock value rose by an astounding 22,500% approximately. However, since that time the [...]
Today’s topic is inflation, a popular subject recently. A higher trend in prices of goods and services has reemerged due to the flood of liquidity the Federal Reserve created to save us from the shut down of the world economy which was created to save us from Covid-19 which was [...]
According to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll immigration has replaced inflation as the top policy concern amongst likely voters. At first glance it might appear that people’s growing concern over current border policies, is the result of a reduced concern on the state of our economy. In my opinion, that [...]
