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Chicago's Slide to Ruin
Chicago has long been known as America’s second city. Built along Lake Michigan, filled with stunning and architecturally beautiful buildings, home of renowned universities and businesses, the city has been for a long time an... Read →
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America's Fabric is Tearing
A Chinese American was brutalized and dragged off a United Airlines flight after all passengers had boarded by three airport cops in order to make room for a United employee. He was a doctor en route to his office and patients, and... Read →
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Wouldn't It Be Amazing ...
Wouldn't it be amazing if Putin plotted everything the last three days. After all, this is a man who acts viciously and maliciously worldwide with impunity. He has been knocking off his adversaries inside and outside Russia for... Read →
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Russia’s Billionaires May Demand Putin Call in his Chips
Russia’s billionaires lost trillions when Muammar Gaddafi fell in Libya. Putin failed to protect their interest, but maintained his power, and hence his own status as the wealthiest man in the world, by promising it wouldn’t... Read →
Who In His or Her Right Mind ...
When you stop and realize what a terrible job it really is, you have to think deeply about why anyone would want it. If you think for a minute about the huge weight of the office, the incessant attention to anything and everything you say,... Read →
Let Them Eat Cake
Around 1789, Marie-Antoinette, bride of France’s King Louis XVI, is believed to have said “let them eat cake,” when she was told that her French subjects had no bread to eat. Soon after, the French Revolution felled the... Read →
Eating Alone with A Woman!
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 →
Whistling In the Dark
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 →
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I Think I'll Join Mar-A-Lago
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 →
Taking Away Benefits
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 →
Reading the Federal Reserve's Tea Leaves
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 →
A Moment in Time - Kumbaya
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 →
Not A Single American Hero
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 →
It is Going to End Badly
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 →