My Comment: Finding ways to give back to your community is a classic step toward redemption. My friends would be hard pressed, however, to assign that motivation to me. I do it because it seems appropriate, because I can, and because it allows me to interact with other intelligent and motivated people. In these days …
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Away With Jerry Cans! Oil Bubble is Bursting!
My Comment: I don’t enjoy paying $4.00 for a gallon of gas for my car. While I know it’s cheap compared to the price others pay around the world, I simply don’t like it. But I have to get from here to there, just like everyone else, so I grumble and moan (my wife says …
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ObamaCare Collapse Would Put Employers in Charge
My Comment: I don’t want to see ObamaCare struck down. Yes, there are elements that need to change, ideas and components that perhaps should not be there. But to throw out the whole idea because there are elements that have developed unintended consequences is foolish. There is a parallel here between an assertion that since …
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Housing Policy is Holding Back America’s Recovery
By Edward Luce and the Financial Times My Comment: We've known all along that housing is a major component of our domestic economy. It's disturging to realize that much more could and should have been done to remedy the mess we are in. But we are in a mess and it's going to take time …
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CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 24, 2012
My Comment: Here is award letter #7. The University of Alabama is well known to all of us. This is for someone enrolling as a freshman in 2010. That’s a lot of money that doesn’t have to be paid back. Click on the image to the right to access the overview I created for CollegeMoneyNow.
How Long Will I Live and How Much Money Will I Need?
Buckets vs. Systematic Withdrawals By Mary Beth Franklin My Comment: These are two questions that create confusion among retired and almost retired clients. Actually, in almost 40 years, no one has asked me these specific questions, but they exist all the same, and the answers are hard, if not impossible, to answer. Retirement in my …
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Malpractice Insurance – The Financial Black Hole
By Tony Kendzior, CLU, ChFC Medical malpractice insurance is seen as a necessary cost for any physician in private practice. It’s almost invisible, a monthly or annual outlay that no one pays much attention to until there is an issue to deal with or perhaps a premium increase. Over the course of a 25 year …
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Hubris Drives Mistrust in U.S.- China Relations
My Comment: Unfortunately, I’m old enough to remember when Henry Kissinger was our Secretary of State. ( Or perhaps fortunately, since I read the obit column closely these days. ) In either case, he’ll go down in history as a major player in 20th century American history. The author below is referencing comments from Mr. …
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What Should the Government Cut?
My Comment: The headline in today’s Gainesville Sun was that Gov. Scott’s veto pen was not as severe toward the University of Florida as had been feared. Here in Alachua County, UF is the economic engine that drives all of us. But while everyone fears their ox being gored, if the revenues aren’t there, and …
Is Going to College an Investment?
My Comment: I went to college ( many years ago ). My parents and I never considered any other option. It was the natural thing to do, a simple extension of high school, and since I had the grades, I applied to the University of Florida, was admitted, and the rest is history. Frankly, I …
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