by admin | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Coverage, Economy, Fiscal cliff, Government, Insurance, Photo inventory, Your home
Do you often wonder, “What happened to…?” Maybe you’re sitting at a traffic light, or you’re in the shower, or on a long stretch of open road. You think back to a certain piece of news you read or heard about, and you wonder, “How...
by admin | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Government, tax inversions
What is all this fuss about Burger King buying Tim Hortons? And why do people make it sounds like it’s such a terrible thing? Especially if the patriotic Mr. Warren Buffett is involved? When you read the reports, you hear two words over and over: tax inversion....
by admin | Jul 25, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Government
A week or so ago, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, gave her bi-annual address to Congress on the state of the economic union. In it, she mentions several statistics the Fed is watching closely, unemployment and inflation in particular. However, there...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | Art, Blog, Economy
Remember the Bible story about Joseph? He’s the one who achieved fame by telling the Pharaoh that Egypt would have seven fat years, followed by seven lean years. Then he followed up the prediction with wisdom, advising the superpower of the day’s ruler to...
by admin | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog, Economy, jobs, The Future
As Mark was getting ready to graduate from high school, recruiters came to his school to recruit him to join Uncle Sam’s armed forces. The benefits, we all know, are good: cheap education, great benefits, and job security. Most high school grads, out to conquer...
by admin | Apr 11, 2014 | Blog, Changes, Coverage, Economy
Days Next week is Tax Day, the 15th of April. As I was thinking about that, it struck me how driven we are by our calendars. Turkeys, we know, are raised in barns with no November page on their wall calendars — that would just bee too traumatic for them....