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Hard to Believe!
It’s just plain hard to believe that Apple would intentionally engineer the slow down of the operating systems of older iPhones for any reason whatsoever, least of which would be to get users to discard their old phones and to buy new... Read →
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New Tax "Cut" Not Really A Christmas Gift for America
The details of Donald Trump’s and Congressional Republicans’ tax cut have only just come out. And, the details tell all. First, I would not go out and celebrate, unless you: are in the real estate business run a... Read →
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Fed Funds Rate is Raised to 1.25%
The Federal Reserve, acting today in Janet Yellen’s final meeting as the Chairman, voted to raise the Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points. The Fed funds target rate is now 1.25% to 1.50%. The Fed is continuing to guide towards three... Read →
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Girls and Women Need the Clubs of the Cave Dwellers
All the current, promising and well-meaning attention to the plight of women in the workplace is fine and good, and long overdue. It’s sad, however, to see really good people like Al Franken fall along with other less worthy men, but... Read →
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Rampant Abuse of the Elderly
When one is 70 plus, even 65 plus, telephones become their enemy and a real and present danger. Home phones are by far worse than cell phone, but both are plagues and both threaten older people’s sense of self and their pocketbook.... Read →
Our Predictions for 2018
It is that time of year – the end of one and the beginning of another. Every pundit is adding their economic predictions, so we’ll add ours. We’ll begin with one caveat. We had not seen the S&P going to 2600 in... Read →
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Throwing Out the Smartest Guy in Government
We all have to get through these times – times when the entire government is without mooring, where the President lacks stability and sanity, and where political leaders on both sides appear to have surrendered responsibility and... Read →
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Is Bitcoin a Bubble?
Bitcoins today offer an individual the possibility of becoming very, very rich by risking it all (including borrowing huge sums from friends family and shysters). By so doing, one could -- possibly – join the ranks in a matter of... Read →
Why You Should Focus on Travel Rewards Credit Cards
At BestCashCow, we get asked a lot why we focus our credit card section so heavily on travel rewards cards, and less so on cash-back cards (and not at all on no-interest cards, etc). We believe that travel rewards cards are exciting and... Read →
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What Jerome Powell’s Confirmation Means for You
Like any American who has one iota of intelligence or historical perspective, I am outraged by our country’s loss of civility and direction at the hands of the Republican (now Trumpian) Party. The tax bill, in particular, is an... Read →
The American Museum of Natural History – Failed US Tax Policy
The American Museum of Natural History (AMHN) is causing a disaster on the Upper West Side, and could care less. It is a failed museum, albeit in a wonderful location on the West Side of New York. If one goes into the museum, they will... Read →
Gary Cohn: "Why Aren't The Other Hands Up?"
At a Wall Street Journal conference of CEOs earlier this week John Bussey asked, “If the tax reform bill goes through, do you plan to increase your company’s capital investment?” 1. Tax-overhaul backers say corporate... Read →
Secretary of His Treasury
Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, and his new wife are simply Trumpians through and through. These two are playing a particularly visible role as champions of the rich and their way of life and giving a middle finger to all... Read →
Is Roy Moore America's Kurt Waldheim?
Roy Moore has been accused by at least five credible witnesses of having been a pedophile and a sexual predator more than three decades ago. While those accusations alone don’t prove guilt, their existence should absolutely make him... Read →