The Louie De Palma Presidency

Check out the below YouTube clip. It’s a classic clip from the sitcom Taxi and it should remind you of someone. Who does this remind you of? Does it remind you of the current White House occupant? It certainly reminds me of President Trump. Here’s Louie’s resounding defense of his stock-broker stint: What you call …

Where Are the Constituents’ Yachts?

In my lifetime, the government footprint has grown tremendously. When I was born, for instance, way back in 1961, there was no such thing as Medicare, Medicaid, student loans, seatbelt laws, and background checks for handgun purchases. The national debt was only $289 billion (versus $23 trillion today), and the federal register only contained 12,792 …

The Only Two Questions You Need to Answer If You Want to Improve Your Finances

I came across yet another academic study that blamed the achievement gap between black and white students on—you guessed it—something other than black students and their parents. This time the culprit was segregation and poverty. The study, Is Separate Still Unequal, can be downloaded here, and it’s worth a look if you don’t mind reading …

The Four-Year College: A Cheap Way to Ruin Your Finances

For reasons I’ll address in a future post, I want to learn how to weld. So I sought instruction from my local community college and a funny thing happened. Within a half-hour after my first class started, I was welding. Yep, I know it’s shocking. My community college apparently doesn’t give a crap about transforming …