If you can’t spot the mark, then you’re the mark. — Isn’t it funny that difficult economic times bring armies of success gurus and “self-help” experts out of the woodwork who claim that if you just buy their programs you’ll be able to fix your life? After a really bad year for the stock market that wrecked many people’s retirement accounts…

Like most writers, I enjoy reading the works of fellow writers. One article stood out because it described an incident that I immediately recognized as a throwback to the era of ‘Head and Master’ laws in the US. Ah yes, the good old ‘Head and Master laws.’ I remember those…

Britain is fast surpassing the US as an example of social collapse among wealthy developed western nations—largely due to its politically hard-right turn, following the American example. Economically, Britain is poised to become the most far-Right country in the world and the damage has already been done in terms of…

The other day on Facebook, one of my friends, Mike Garrone, who graduated from high school in the 1990s, posted some inconvenient truths about the student debt crisis to challenge the victim-blaming of “they can’t get jobs to repay their loans because they got useless degrees” and “they’re buying new…

Ray Shefska, a 72 year-old retired car dealership manager and his 28 year-old son, Zach, have a growing YouTube content creating business—CarEdge.com— that publicly calls out bad actors in the auto industry and educates potential car customers in need of a car. The duo’s lively on-screen chemistry is entertaining. They…

Great article! Prior to reading this, I would not have known of its existence had it not come up in my feed. I had no idea until now that there was a formal Confederacy Constitution and that an actual copy of it exists in Yale's archives. (Actual link: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp ) …

Used and new car prices have skyrocketed between 40% to 50% since the COVID pandemic and have not come down closer to pre-COVID levels, and a semi-conductor chip shortage is no longer a valid excuse. The majority of Americans in need of transportation have been priced out of reliable cars…

Yes, a debt ceiling default would have instantly flushed the whole country straight down the hopper. …

That's what the more fortunate say about poor struggling food delivery gig workers when we complain about not getting any tips even though our paycheck is almost entirely dependent upon tips, and unlike waitresses, we're putting a ton of wear and tear on our cars delivering restaurant food (that we…