January 31, 20150Comments

Costs Matter Everywhere: Whether running a show on Broadway or trying to reach a retirement goal, costs are key.

The principles of value investing are as important on the Great White Way as they are on Main Street, where the average person tries to achieve a long-term financial goal. Indeed,

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

January 26, 20150Comments

What Next? And Next? (i): A shorthand history of Modern America at war. After Vietnam, the Imperial Presidency continues to expand. Part VII, the end of the series.

President Johnson and other presidents, who had taken the country into seemingly endless wars, had often lied to the American people. It was the people who paid for these wars

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

January 22, 20150Comments

The Quiet Crisis in America, Part 2: A lack of savings makes the last years a miserable time for many.

The lack of retirement saving, an over reliance on old-age government welfare programs such as Social Security, is creating a crisis for millions of Americans in their 50s and 60s.

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

January 18, 20151Comments

The Quiet Crisis in America, Part I: A lack of savings makes the last years a miserable time for many.

“Old age is a shipwreck,” Charles De Gaulle, president of France and creator of the Fifth Republic in 1958 Millions of Americans are having or will be having a terrible retirement.

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

January 9, 20151Comments

Je suis Charlie: The spirit of liberty is under attack. Will it survive?

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

January 7, 20150Comments

What Next? And Next?: A shorthand history of Modern America at War. America and Vietnam, 1940-1975. Part VI

In what was America’s longest and perhaps its most debated war, America sleep walked into war in Southeast Asia in the early 1960s. It fought a regime headed by a

by Gregory Bresiger

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