The New York Times has discovered that Vice President Pence will not eat alone with any woman other than his wife!
And, he is Vice President of the United States!
And, it’s 2017 in America!
And, last I looked, the vast... Read →
There is much talk about the return to the manufacturing world of the twentieth century. Lots of promises being made to out-of-work people that old plants will come to life again and new, greatly increased numbers of manufacturing jobs... Read →
Mar-A-Logo membership recently went up from $100,000 to $200,000. The doubling in price has a lot of people crying foul, for the owners seem to have doubled the cost of membership within days of their father being sworn in.
But, I am... Read →
I never believed I would say it, but the Republican majority in the House has not served the new President well. They have produced a pathetic and wholly inadequate replacement for Obamacare. If it goes through, their hastiness and their... Read →
BestCashCow provides the most comprehensive list of US savings accounts and CDs from online banks as well as from branch-based banks and credit unions. As such, we tend to get a lot of queries when the Fed raises interest rates, as it did... Read →
America is in a moment unlike any before. And it is fueling a strange, albeit fleeting period of emphatically enthusiastic sentiments, simultaneously, in two major and almost always opposing segments of society.
It is hard to think back... Read →
Throughout the long, ugly election campaign, no one stood up, save Mitt Romney who after the election seriously undercut the singular role he had fashioned. One can make the case that no one expected Trump to win, including most... Read →
Alan Greenspan called it Irrational Exuberance. Others have called it heady or intentional blindness. But however you look at the stock market’s performance since Donald Trump was elected, it is clear that reason is not operating... Read →
In response to this article cautioning against buying long-term municipal bonds, I wanted to outline some reasons that interest rates may rise slowly, or not much at all. Here are some items that also need to be considered when factoring in... Read →
BestCashCow first projected that Trump’s extreme and malignant narcissism would cause him to fail properly to divorce from his assets in a way that would call into question his independence, his freedom from the emoluments clause, and... Read →
It is exceedingly hard to look even months out with a modicum of confidence as to coming trends and events. We are in the most uncertain of times.
This is especially true for those in retirement. Over the last decade, really beginning... Read →
After only a few days of the Trump administration, led by an unstable president and his frightening trio (Bannon, Flynn, and Conway), the country is spiraling out of control. Strikes and protests abound throughout the country and abroad,... Read →
In 1996, when the then Federal Reserve Chair, Alan Greenspan coined the phrase “Irrational Exuberance”, it troubled folks but also incorrectly forecast a precipitous drop in the markets. It took another three years.
It... Read →
We all, everyone of us, have our heads in the sands. Most of those who voted for Trump have yet to realize what they have wrought. But they will. The rest know now, but are unable to face the reality of it all.
In fact, we are all... Read →
Donald Trump will be president in a matter of days, regardless of what Russia may have on him. He may be impeached in a matter of days too, but that is less certain.
But, whatever the days ahead may have in store for us, under any of... Read →