Rags Are Not Riches
Our tolerance of the severe economic imbalance in the United States may have to do with the slippery use of a single term: wealth. Even Robert Reich is complicit . . . Continue reading
Our tolerance of the severe economic imbalance in the United States may have to do with the slippery use of a single term: wealth. Even Robert Reich is complicit . . . Continue reading
School lunchtime. Anyone remember that? At a signal, scores of children spill out of classrooms into the hallway to storm the lunchroom. But what’s this? At the cafeteria entrance, one girl is coaxed out of line and told to wait outside. But she’ll miss her lunch, she points out. She’s not to get any, she is informed. Continue reading
Here is the stellar speech President Biden would have given to the Business Roundtable on June 13, 2024, had he attended and someone sensible had written it. Continue reading
Jesus is recorded as saying the poor will be with you always, perhaps his politic way of saying the money changers will be with you always, that is, the rich, who create the poor. This has turned out to be true. Our pox today is how monstrous large the discrepancy between poor and rich has become. Continue reading
Beware of paying off foolish debts. Better to demonize hack creditors knowing it’s optional bondage than to twist fully conscious in the grip of implacable destiny. I only say this because I had a bad week. Continue reading
Letting the top 1% accumulate so much wealth, then taxing it to redistribute that wealth can’t work. By the time taxes are applied, the damage has been done. To close the wealth gap, we must keep individuals from getting so rich in the first place. Continue reading
When we left you, my father’s long-term care insurance had just denied him long-term care coverage, and we were getting ready to appeal. Then a strange thing happened. The insurer offered to pay back all his premiums. Dad’s eyes lit up. Ramming speed, I said. Continue reading
While it is true that my father never read the policy, it is also true that he was hoodwinked. He signed on to a policy called long-term care insurance, expecting at some point to get long-term care coverage. But let’s wink at knucklehead gullibility for now and consider how the policy was introduced to him. Continue reading
I make my heartrending adieu to my one and only financial wizard, whose keen interest took in many things, one of which was not my financial health, but most of my money. Continue reading