My Comments: Our economy is dying. And it has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats. It has to do with demographics. A solution is to encourage immigration, a source of new people to add to the labor force, buy homes, buy cars, buy groceries, buy insurance policies, and everything else normal people do. Yes, …
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My Comments: I’ve posted extensively over these past 5 years about the ACA and the health care industry in general. I’ve watched, as a person involved in selling health care insurance these past 40 years, the confounding annual increases in the cost of healthcare to the point it would overwhelm our GDP if not checked. …
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My Comments: Fixing what ails us ain’t going to be easy. Especially when the two political parties are more intent on having the other fail than doing what we hired them to do in the first place. My future is limited while that of my children and grandchildren has decades to run. Economics, despite it …
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My friend Bill Goodman wrote this and posted it to his Facebook page. My thoughts about what he wrote follow his comments. Approximately 50 percent of the students in Alachua County come from households that qualify them for free or reduced lunch services. Most of these students’ parents are employed and work one or more …
My comments: Social Security is under threat. It’s running out of money. Sort of. Back in 1983, under President Reagan, Congress made some changes as, like now, the future of the program looked cloudy. They increased the age at which you qualified for full benefits, they increased the percentage of earned income you paid into …
My Comments: I have no idea where the following came from. I found them in my archives and decided the respective statements and explanation are still very relevant. And besides, today is Monday and that’s when I post stuff about investing money. My apologies for not being able to correctly attribute this post. Which investment …
My Comments: I really want 45 to be successful. The health and welfare of my children and grandchildren depend on it. And I really don't want the never ending distraction now caused by, first, his apparent incompetence and secondly, by the constitutional crisis that will result if he fails. I find him intellectually lazy. Yes, …
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My Comments: OK, #5 may be a bit of a stretch for me. I’ve had a black thumb all my life; anything I plant dies immediately. There are now millions of us in retirement, or what for some of us is semi-retirement. And whether you believe it or not, the rules underlying economics and finance …
My Comments: Most of you know I’m no fan of Donald Trump. But I am a realist and my primary focus going forward is to figure out how to best help myself and my clients manage the fallout that is coming. While Reagan was recognized as a ‘great communicator’, Trump will be seen as a …
My Comments: A phrase I’m known to use from time to time is that ‘life is generally better with more money than it is with less money.” While this might seem obvious, there are many people whose efforts to have more money have fallen flat. Here’s a few ideas that might help you. Michelle Mabry, …
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