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Know the Rules If You're Going to Play the Game Mar. 22, 2023
It's time to get it out in the open: Credit card companies are in it for the money. They are in busi... Read More
My Life as a Frog Mar. 16, 2023
I have been told if you attempt to pop a frog into a pot of boiling water, he'll jump out every time... Read More
Biden's Banking Busts Mar. 15, 2023
The failure of three banks in the last two weeks, including Silicon Valley Bank on Friday and Signat... Read More
Beware Debt-settlement Schemes and Scam Artists Mar. 14, 2023
The ads are compelling. "If you have at least $10,000 of credit card debt, you are eligible to have ... Read More
Reader Discovers It's Difficult to Pay the Balance to the Penny Mar. 13, 2023
Dear Cheapskate: This is petty perhaps, but how does one ever completely pay off a credit card accou... Read More
America's $100 Billion Climate Change Flop Mar. 07, 2023
For at least the last 20 years, politicians in Washington, at the behest of green energy groups, hav... Read More
Mangling Words' Meaning to Manipulate the Public Mar. 02, 2023
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in Biden v. Nebraska, a case in which... Read More
Court Must Stop Biden's $400 Billion Transfer of Wealth Mar. 01, 2023
"This bill is simple in its purpose." So stated Republican Rep. John Kline of Minnesota, who served ... Read More
What To Do When You Can't Pay All of Your Bills and More Feb. 22, 2023
Dear Mary: Our mortgage was due on the first. As I write it is the 21st. We have the money to pay it... Read More
Social Security Reform About Principles, Not Accounting Feb. 15, 2023
Per CNN and other media outlets, when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ran his first campaign for Congress ... Read More
The Truth About the Debt Limit Fight Feb. 03, 2023
As with so many of our national debates, the truth about the current debt limit fight is not just di... Read More
National Debt Reflects a Nation That Has Lost Its Way Jan. 25, 2023
As tensions about raising the nation's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling build, the headline that should b... Read More
The Parties: A View From the Suburbs Jan. 24, 2023
There are moderates in the suburbs — Democrats, Republicans and Independents — who want ... Read More
It's Official: Trump's Tax Cuts Paid for Themselves Jan. 24, 2023
How many times have you heard President Joe Biden or Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sander... Read More
Biden's Proposal: Increase Debt By 57.8% Jan. 18, 2023
When President Joe Biden sent Congress his budget proposal for fiscal 2023 last March, he tried to s... Read More
Federal Budget: No Place for Freelancers Jan. 11, 2023
Can newly installed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy deliver on the promises and deals that he floated o... Read More
2023's Strategic Challenges: Introducing Big Debt Jan. 04, 2023
When 2022 began, Vladimir Putin's Russia was fighting a slow but deadly war with Ukraine — a w... Read More
In 2022, Biden Increased Debt $11,374 per Worker -- But for What? Jan. 04, 2023
President Joe Biden, working with a Democrat-controlled Congress, increased the federal debt in 2022... Read More
More Money May Not Be the Answer Dec. 27, 2022
Affluence is not measured by your annual income. Affluence is determined by how many of your resourc... Read More
