This was a sign from the Occupation movement in Los Angeles. The top of the sign reads “15 years ago we had” (Photo by Harlin Kahn) When the Arab Spring populist movement came about, it was not only about changing the type of government but also about jobs. This translates to a demand for a [...]
You have thirty minutes warning before the tsunami hits, do you leave by car or on foot? You decide to run a marathon barefoot to keep down on the possibility of injury You are approaching burnout from the amount of work you put in for your own business because you just can’t seem to delegate [...]
Advice for decision makers You are interviewing three candidates to find a new financial investment manager. You ask the first prospect if: a) (fill-in – interest rates/stocks/bonds/economy) are going to go up or down. The potential advisor gives you a confident answer that things will be going up and good reasons to back it up. [...]
A gaggle of articles, blogs, books, and talk shows are honking statistics that show the widening disparity between the super rich and the rest of us. We hear about the increase in poverty, and about our collective lack of healthcare or, for those that do have care, our inability to afford it, among more gloomy [...]
These are tough economic times, no doubt about it. In times like these, it’s hard to think of things to feel grateful for. Obviously, if I compare myself to someone living in a third world country who can barely feed themself, who worries constantly about the safety of their family, or about how much the [...]
Money has long been a source of confusion for many of us, and never more so than in recent times. Why? Money is slippery. Whatever you think money is, it isn’t. Let me show you what I mean. Set a timer for 3 minutes. Now brainstorm a list that begins “Money is__________.” You can vary [...]
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