October 28, 20200Comments

How to Destroy a Retirement Plan: How I saw a friend throw away a lot of her retirement assets

GregoryBresiger.com often talks about the best ways to save for retirement or achieve financial independence as soon as possible. Today let’s examine the opposite. Let’s look...

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

October 24, 20200Comments

Big Spending Money Mischief and American Prosperity: Can governments cure depressions and create jobs by spending their way to prosperity as many lawmakers believe? A better way out of bad times: Less is more.

Governments can’t create jobs and spend their way out of economic problems, yet they continue to try with disastrous results. Our government’s long-term reckless spending and...

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

August 31, 20200Comments

How to Get Started on the Road to Financial Independence: Advice to a young friend

Start saving, investing and following good money habits as soon as possible. It’s important that you are realistic; that you don’t expect any big overnight returns, but that...

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

August 28, 20200Comments

The Radicalization of Sports: An Open Letter to Two Prominent Sports Writers. Why I am watching a lot less sports.

Baseball writers Joel Sherman and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post have recently endorsed the radicalization of sports. They argue the players are within their rights in...

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

August 23, 20200Comments

Big Spending Money Mischief Hurts the Nation: Can governments cure depressions by spending print and tax their way to prosperity as most lawmakers now believe? No. The better way is so old it has been forgotten: less government, more liberty.

Governments’ attempts to spend and print their way out of bad times produce disastrous results and ignore the lessons of history. Our government’s long-term reckless spending...

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

August 12, 20200Comments

Making the Super Rich Pay for Covid: Are billionaires not paying their “fair share” in taxes? Do we want more or fewer billionaires in America?

The Corona pandemic helps billionaires and furthers income inequality so the government should raise their taxes, several lawmakers say. The well-heeled, they contend, should...

by Gregory Bresiger

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