Where have all the workers gone?
This past weekend my family and I went to a local chain restaurant for dinner. As we entered, I was surprised to find the dining room virtually empty given it was dinner time on a Friday night. I was even more surprised to find a lobby full of people and [...]
It’s a hard time to be an investor
Lenin once said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” I believe for today’s economy and stock market; no truer words have been spoken. This is one of the most stressful periods I have seen since I began to watch markets in 1998. There’s [...]
How Do You Know?
I am thinking of the pop song, How do you know if he really loves you? Whitney Houston made this a giant hit a couple of decades ago. But in this column, I am discussing how can one know if this new bull market is the real deal and will [...]
Obtaining both health and wealth require similar actions
Several weeks ago, I wrote on the topic of insurance, and the importance of having enough to protect your family should something happen to you. As part of my research for the article, I dug deep into the statistics involving the most likely factors that can lead to one’s early [...]
Bitcoin has a role in countering governments’ abuse of money
Bitcoin has made an absolutely remarkable run over the last decade. It may have gone up higher and faster than any other asset class, ever. It was trading under $5000 at the onset of the 2020 covid lockdowns, before running over $60,000 less than a year later. Today, I’d like [...]
Tough Sledding
If you have friends from the 41st latitude, they will tell you there are two seasons—6 months of winter and 6 of tough sledding. That tough sledding part is what we are experiencing in financial markets in 2022. It will probably last through September. After all, this is the mid-term [...]
Reform is Needed in Washington
One of the things that was a mitigating factors for our great nation’s founding almost 250 years ago was the level of corruption that had permeated all areas of British life, particularly it’s government. For this reason, most, if not all, of the signers of our Declaration of Independence, supported [...]
Loving others means taking care of their needs
With my wife Rebecca’s birthday being on Valentine’s Day, the holiday holds a special significance to me. Not because if I forget about it I am in twice as much trouble as other guys, but because I truly love my wife with all of my heart, and this day gives [...]
Service Clubs: A Fruit of Capitalism
Assuming that all US schools are still teaching some American and World History, it appears that some of our young adults just did not understand it. Or perhaps it is logic and critical thinking they have missed. According to the Gallup Organization, since 2010, about 50 percent of our young [...]
A Simple Life Lesson
Life sometimes has a habit of teaching you lessons in weird ways. For the first time in my life, I recently ran out of gas while driving. On this particular day, my low fuel light came on shortly after leaving home for the office. For whatever reason however, I forgot [...]