Watch this video on YouTube Recently I’ve heard from a few readers that some of my columns are too political. Yes, I sometimes discuss politics, because political issues and governmental actions have a direct impact on our personal finances. One of The American...
A story done by Dirk van Dijk, CFA for Zack’s Investment Research, compared Ronald Reagan’s first year in office with Barack Obama’s. Both presidents inherited a sick economy: Obama a meltdown of the financial system and Reagan runaway inflation. Of...
Watch this video on YouTube Charles Dickens has a scene in A Christmas Carol where two charity workers approach Scrooge on Christmas Eve: . . . “a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor...
Watch this video on YouTube Over the past year, Rapid City’s country club rebuilt its 50-year-old club house. An article in the Rapid City Journal on the opening of the new building elicited several online comments, including these: • “And for [those] who...
Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt would both feel right at home in today’s Washington. In an article in the London Telegraph, economists Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute suggest there...
