I Cannot Thank You Enough. I hardly ever post anything on my personal Facebook page, aside from some yearly family photos or an occasional Proud Dad moment accomplishment from the kids. However, I have always loved logging on to see what the people that I have shared time with, and have impacted me throughout my […]
There is a scene in the film Jurassic Park that I often sub-reference on the radio show. Dr. Ian Malcolm after seeing that scientists have brought dinosaurs back to life, rather than praise them for their genius he offers up this prophetic take… “Don’t you see the danger inherent in what you’re doing here? Genetic […]
Business news is getting to be quite tedious. One the more important points we have tried to get across to our listeners and clients over the past few decades is that conventional wisdom is poison. Maybe I am showing my age, but it has seemingly gotten much more tedious as well. The daily parade of […]
Judge Smails: Ty what did you shoot today? Ty: Oh Judge, I don’t keep score. Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers? Ty: By height. From the 1980 film Caddyshack Are you one of the countless people that have a difficult time understanding what the so-called wizards of smart in main-stream-media […]
Rather than do what I usually do during my Fraud Files columns, where as I grab a stack of stories from around the country and report on various instances of malfeasance. Instead, I decided that this time I am going to do more of what one might call a think piece. Every day, I print […]
I am starting to realize that the years are starting to add up. One of the first signs was when I started using the vernacular decades ago to date certain points in my career rather than years ago. My eyesight is starting to wane. However, the most annoying age-related issue that I am whining about […]
An eye-opening financial report recently released concerning private colleges stated that 25% of all private colleges spent more than they earned in 2017 despite the overall increase in tuition revenue. (They must be taking a cue from Uncle Sam.) Where in the name of beer bongs, tapestries and safe spaces is all that money going? […]
In 1980, the British band the Buggles declared that “Video Killed the Radio Star.” In 2018, one could say that the free market and a growing GDP is killing Obamacare. Outside of the Trump Tax Reform’s move to kill the Obamacare requirement that individuals must purchase health insurance, we are witnessing GDP growth and a […]
Something smells really bad. It’s called the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act and it is the latest brain fart from the man, the myth, the legend Senator Bernie Sanders. This bill which could have come straight out of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged would tax corporations with more than 500 employees at 100% […]
Edward Jones, the brokerage that likes to market itself as your “hometown, folksy, everyone knows your name” firm is joining the ranks of the other big brokerage firms in segregating their smaller “less worthy” clients and sending them off to some sort of call-center hell. Edward D. Jones & Co is acknowledging that some of […]