The quest for capital and all of the advantages that it brings has consumed man since we developed opposable thumbs. While many movies deal with money as a peripheral issue, there are some great movies that deal with the mechanics of making money. I have always been fascinated with the inner workings of our...
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As a little girl, I can recall the sounds of Frankie Beverly, Keith Sweat or “The Elements” wafting through the hall as my momma grooved around the house with a mop, a vacuum cleaner, Windex, and Pledge. The music soothed her as she tidied the living room and then dared me to “live in it”. It seems that I have adopted...
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If I had kids–no, just one kid–I’d be under the poor house. My fate wouldn’t be due to the cost of diapers and bibs or expensive tennis shoes for peer-pressured teenagers. Another money-sucking area of my budget looms large in my life, and as long as the FDA sees no need to protect me, I see no way of...
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There’s an old saying… or maybe it’s a scientific fact. Either way, “they” say that if there was a nuclear war the animal most fit to survive would be the cockroach. Well… I guess I’m the cockroach of “the Great Recession.” I’ve been scavenging for so long I never even bothered to look up and see the...
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Now that a weak, and underfunded stimulus plan has been voted on by the Senate and is on its way to conference, let us turn our attention to something a bit more important: the looming collapse of our financial sector. In the midst of the political squabbling over the stimulus plan, we missed the fact that the $750 billion bank...
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Here I go again. I feel the need to explain why, besides the damage they have wrought to the stimulus plan, the Republican push for tax cuts is an ineffectual and misguided economic policy. Besides a few economists that are friendly with the highly partisan Heritage Foundation, most agree that tax cuts are not an effective way...
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