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It’s hard to believe today that in the summer of 2014, not even two whole years ago, that the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil sat at $115.…

There’s news from the stock market and it’s all bad. The best news from the first week of trading in the new year is that the market can’t fall any…

There was general agreement among analysts that 2016 was not going to be a great year for stocks. Yet nothing prepared investors for the brutal reality of the first week…

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are a single missed paycheck away from financial disaster. The math is straightforward and brutal; it’s all about the odds. Roughly four in ten Americans are…

You can’t see inflation and, in the last few decades, you haven’t even been able to feel it. That’s because inflation is an expert at camouflage. Inflation knows how to…

Standing on Florida’s coast last night I witnessed space history as a Falcon 9 booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral and arced into the night sky. From my vantage I…

I’m not sure why people wait for the end of the year to make resolutions; the time to make a resolution is the moment you realize there’s a problem. Be…

It’s hard to believe but children born today might never know the adolescent rite of passage that is a driver’s license exam. For kids born today it will be close,…

For much of the most productive era in American history the middle class was the dominant force in the country. The nation was so aligned along that center of the…

In these days of 5% unemployment the dark days of 2008 and 2009 are largely a distant memory. For many young people in the workforce today, those days passed blissfully…