The Anomaly of the Advisory Services in America: A letter to the advisory industry on what it should do to help average people
Looking for advice on how to build assets and achieve financial independence? You’ve got lots of company here in the United States, where we face the contradiction of the advisory industry: If you need help to accumulate assets, you usually can’t get it. But if you don’t need help, it’s easy to find help. A…
Don’t Take a Holiday from Money Sense: Commonsense money practices don’t stop when you head for the airport
All year long you follow commonsense money practices. You avoid outrageous charges. You hunt for the best buys. You expect retailers to please you or you take your business elsewhere. Then, you go on holiday, and sometimes throw away money. What happens to otherwise money smart people when they go on vacation? I think many…
MoneySense: Common-Sense Approaches on How to Save, Invest and Achieve Long-Term Goals
Note to Readers of Gregory Bresiger.com. The philosophy of this blog is the idea of smart money management; of avoiding many of the mistakes that can ruin a person’s life. We have taken this idea and turned it into a mini-book that combines commonsense with simple money management concepts. Liam Judge, my partner and the…
GOOD BUYS/BAD BUYS: A very bad buy: The egregious government “enterprise”
Let’s take a trip. Let’s avoid the endless security lines and traffic that inevitably delays flights at many American airports owing to an outdated air traffic control system. Let’s take the government train. Let’s take Amtrak, the government railroad that loses tens of millions of dollars each year and billions since the government takeover of…
Trump’s Triumph or Hillary’s Blunders?: Both are factors in the latest 1948 upset election in America
In 1948 republican Thomas Dewey took for granted he was going to win the presidency against incumbent Harry Truman and cut back on his campaigning. Most of the media agreed, yet they were all wrong. Dewey threw away his election just as Al Gore, in the election of 2000, made the same mistake. He was…
American Elections—What Went Wrong?: Trump was only partly right about the system being rigged
No matter who wins, we Americans have lost. I write as possibly the most divisive presidential elections in U.S. history—as divisive and bitter as the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1800—has taken place. And, even though as I write this I don’t know whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be a…
