In recent times, some financial advisors have begun to add health care as a primary consideration in development of personal, business and family financial plans. The intent is certainly...
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Four Reasons Why the Cult of Negativity Hangs On, Even as Outlook Improves
For the last several months we have been reading accounts of how the US economy is showing signs of improvement, as unemployment heads to below 7%, housing markets recover and real estate prices...
Income Gap: An Economic and Moral Dilemma, But Nothing New
Among the more popular headlines we’re reading lately are about the rather discouraging level of income disparity we’re seeing between educated, mostly urban high income earners and the huge class...
Ongoing Shenanigans by Big Banks Invokes Nostalgia for Glass-Steagall
Back in the old days, there was this thing called “Glass-Steagall”. No, it was not fancy German stemware or French crystal; it was a Federal Law that mandated relative sanity for financial markets...
Health Care Costs Begin to Moderate, but Remain a Major Problem for Most
In recent weeks we’ve heard the first positive news on health care costs in many years. Health care cost increases have begun to slow down. The Associated Press reported in mid August: A report...