October 8, 20180Comments

“Stocks? We Don’t Need Stocks!”: Avoid one of the biggest mistakes of personal finance

Millions of Americans are making this mistake. And yet it is one of the big reasons why many people will never accumulate substantial assets, never achieve financial independence and possibly

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

September 25, 20180Comments

WHAT I’M READING: Two Masterpieces of Clear Economics: Money manager writes the successor books to Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson.

Title: Economics in Three Lessons; One Hundred Economic Laws By Hunter Lewis (Axios, Edinburg, Virginia, 403 pages). In an age of clouded thinking, in which mainstream media misses the point of

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

September 18, 20180Comments

Bypassing Emergency Rooms for More Immediate Care

All across New York City and the United States a new kind of medical care is changing how people go to the doctor. It is the urgent care facility. These

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

September 12, 20180Comments

Elegy for a Way of Life: The values of self-improvement under attack as Americans embrace sports betting and governments dream of billions more in their coffers

As the football season opened last week in the United States, state governments were lining up to take advantage of sports betting. Lawmakers quietly touted the virtues of legalized betting----they

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

September 7, 20180Comments

Money Management Made Simple: Ockham’s Razor Can Still Guide Us Centuries Later

Don’t hem and haw, talking a problem to death. Solve it. Use a simple, clear strategy. Many in doubt over which solution to take to their money woes should take the

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

August 24, 20180Comments

The Problems of Social Security—Radical Reforms Needed: One generation already hurt. Will the next one also get mulcted? Time to consider the what was once thought impossible: Offer new retirement saving choices and start to unwind the Social Security by making it compete.

As we discussed in the previous segment, Social Security, America’s bedrock government retirement program, is on a collision course with mathematics. More people are collecting for longer periods than in

by Gregory Bresiger

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