Unemployment Benefit Poker

July 26, 2021 A group of 21 state governors, all Republicans, have decided to do something about labor woes. This group, which could grow larger, decided to stop participating in the federal government supplemental Unemployment Benefits Program, which provides an...

Three Steps to Inflation

July 19, 2021 There’s a threat coming for your portfolio – inflation. Inflation hampers those who live on savings and generate income from wealth. If you planned to earn a certain amount of money per year from investments, that same amount is now worth less. For...

The Modernity of Money

July 12, 2021 Maybe you’ve heard of modern monetary theory. Basically, it argues that developed nations with their own sovereign currencies should be able to print as much money as they want, and federal deficits, however large, should not matter. In other words, if...

Endless Debt

July 6, 2021 It’s time to discuss a question I’ve been asking for 40 years – when will our national debt create a financial crisis? This topic became interesting to me when Ronald Reagan was president because I was a big Reagan supporter. That is, I was a...

Speeding Up the Trickle Down

June 28, 2021 While on one hand President Biden says America is ready to take off, on the other he seems to want to take from earners and redistribute that wealth to non-earners. The president wants the IRS to target high-earning Americans he thinks may be shielding...