This week on the personal finance site HumbleDollar I share three strategies for tackling your financial goals: humbledollar.com/2017/12/first-things-first/ [...]
Bitcoin mania
If you happened to turn on the financial news this week, you undoubtedly heard about bitcoin, which has been on a wild ride: On Monday, it was trading at $11,000, having gained 1,000% since January. On Wednesday, it rose to $15,000. On Thursday it topped $19,000. Then, this morning it reversed, [...]
What to do
In the spring of 1959, then-Senator John F. Kennedy delivered a memorable speech in which he made the following observation: “In the Chinese language, the word crisis is composed of two characters, one representing danger and the other, opportunity.” Some have pointed out that Kennedy's [...]
The Turkey Principle
Sitting at the Thanksgiving table yesterday, there was some joking about all the different turkey-related expressions we have: If you want to have a frank conversation with someone, you need to talk turkey. If you want to quit something in a hurry, you go cold turkey. If you’re a dancer, there’s the [...]
Lobster?
Last year the author Malcolm Gladwell set off a firestorm when he attacked the rapidly-increasing cost of college tuition. In a podcast titled “Food Fight,” Gladwell argued that tuition is out of control because schools are engaged in an arms race to increase amenities, at the expense of [...]
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