A Capital Idea Attention Millennials: do you need some financial advice about how much to spend on college or how much to take out on loans or how to best pay off your loans? Do you need some financial advice about what career path to take or where to live that has good job opportunities […]
Only You Can Save Us from Catastrophe Perhaps you have heard about Moral Mondays (MM). The folks in North Carolina take Monday as a day to restore fairness in government and social justice. Now that these activists have begun to stimulate our consciousness into action, it is time to add another day to the social […]
The Great Shift Away From Economic Justice “The day of reckoning is here, we’re at the end of an era where we have Democratic spending policies and Republican tax policies. The result has been huge deficits and mounting debt burdens. It doesn’t work”- David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general. Rome wasn’t built in a day, […]
Global Principles for a Healthy World The chip stack leader in a poker game can afford to throw their weight around. They can play average hands and force others with average hands to retreat and they can challenge good hands and force others with good hands to fold as they play to the fear that […]
(continued from Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and Welfare States) The question of when an individual should be protected from a risk, of course, comes down to economics. It is obvious to most of us now that paying for someone’s food by giving out food stamps or paying for social security and Medicare when we are all […]
The magician’s trick pulls the coin out from behind our ear. On one side of that coin is risk and the other is control. They are part of the same coin; a sleight of hand that we call money. We love to watch the illusion and ask “how did they do that?” We tell ourselves […]
The Changing Money Myth In the movie “The Artist,” George Valentin gets caught up with the advent of movie sound and left behind as an actor. Like the typewriter repair person, he is rendered useless by technological change. In a tribute to the old Hollywood silent days it is against all odds that a movie […]
Exercise: What have you done in your life that was done for money but felt wrong since you believed that you didn’t have a better choice? As each person ages, we must decide at what point do we apply the label “old” to ourselves. Like becoming rich, there is not one point when you are […]
I dream worlds. They are other worlds which I figure must be in alien realms or distant lands. I used to dream about relationships which contained the characters in my life like one would view a play at a theater. No more, I only see some bizarre world where I can’t explain what happens or […]
Europe is on the brink. They’re goin’ down. No wait. They can contain it. We’re okay for now. Gee, it’s only Greece. No wait. It may spread to Spain and Italy. Everyone watches and tries to gage where this is all going. The markets are pacified one day and panicked the next. What everyone knows […]
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