My Comments: Given the nature of how we live our lives these days, this is probably a very naive question. But it sure reminds me of my younger days. How about you? Click on the picture of me, taken in Peoria, Illinois where I walked to school every day for two years from our house …
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Which Trust to Use?
My Comments: First, a DISCLAIMER: I am NOT an attorney and it would be best if no one accuses me of practicing law without a license. There’s an ongoing issue about this in Florida right now. But I do get asked questions about trusts and it helps to have a little basic knowledge. I also …
7 Quick Points On Europe
My Comments: My purpose with this post is to confuse you. Yes, that’s right, to confuse you. That’s because even though I claim to be a financial professional of almost 40 years duration, I’m confused. And I don’t want to feel alone. This came across my inbox inside a newsfeed I look at daily which …
Medicare Advantage after PPACA
My Comments: OK, I understand it; you’re sick and tired of posts about the PPACA and the crap our so-called leaders in Congress are doing to muddy the waters. Unfortunately, access to affordable health care is what tends to keep us alive, never mind that the system is mostly a sickness treatment system and not …
Good Company, Bad Stock
My Comments: This post is to remind you that stock market performance and the state of the economy do not follow the same track. From time to time there are close parallels, but they dance to a different drummer. My arguments that the stock market is due for a crash are unrelated to the state …
Military Retirement Faces Shake-up
My Comments: I did not serve in the military; I failed my draft physical way back in 1959. They gave me a 1-Y classification that said ‘only in case of national emergency’. I don’t think I was upset since by then I was a freshman at the University of Florida and VietNam was looming on …
Germany Is Delusional To The Point Of Insanity
My Comments: Assertive headlines such as what you see here are usually outside my comfort zone. For one it implies a pathology that I’m not trained to comment on and two, Europe and European values are different from mine, given that I’ve lived here in the US for the past 65 years. (Warning: this post …
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the Future of Medicine is…
My Comments: I claim no authority on this topic. However, because I often work with physicians, I’m very aware of the pressures that apply to the profession. There are many issues on which no individual has any control, one of them the apparent erosion of the profession in terms of college graduates not seeking admittance …
Current Oil Price Decline May Set Stage For Price Spike And Global Recession
My Comments: There are relatively high taxes on the sale of gasoline at the pump where I live. In spite of this, we are almost at the $2.00 per gallon level. As I’ve mentioned before, this is both a good thing and a potentially bad thing. The bad is that money invested to bring us …
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House Price Rises Give Birth to Generational Inequality
My Comments: I’ve spoken before about how uncomfortable I get with the increasing divide between the haves and the have nots. That it is real is evidenced by a TV show that features this very idea. What I had not thought about before this was another disturbance in the force between generations. In my generation, …
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