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 →
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 →
United Airlines yesterday barred two girls in leggings from a flight. This is a big story getting out of proportion coverage across the media today.
Meanwhile, we have a country in crisis. A new President, who ran on his skills in... Read →
On the one hand, it is very good news to learn that authorities have identified a young man in Israel responsible for calling in bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers in America. The young man, apparently, is eighteen years old and... 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 →
Anthony Scaramucci is one of the brightest minds on Wall Street and has been for decades. He has used his extraordinary financial insight and business acumen to build funds, raise capital, invest successfully, and build a strong brand... 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 →
There is plenty do be concerned about vis-a-vis Trump and his clan and their climate change denying position.
Rex Tillerson, unlike Bannon, Kellyanne and even Trump himself, is not a climate change denier. As Exxon’s CEO, he was... Read →
Tech circles have been abuzz about autonomous driving for a while. It is the first and most obvious application of artificial intelligence advances, and it has been developing quickly over the last two years. Unlike LED lighting (2013)... Read →
I’ve been earning travel rewards since I got my first credit card, and at a certain point in the late 1990’s the Starwood card became the best.
Over the intervening years, I have earned tons of points and miles through credit... Read →
Obama pushed it through with no Republican votes.
His was a poorly developed and unsustainable program.
Polosi’s famous comment says it all: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in... Read →
American Express recently announced changes to its flagship credit card product. The Platinum Card
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®, which recently began giving 5x points per dollar spent directly on... Read →