Money

Teaching Children about Money: Chapter 1 – Mistakes

Posted by on September 3, 2010 at 8:35 pm

When I was a kid my dad gave me a job stripping aluminum from a load of heater coils; copper tubing wrapped in aluminum coils.  He had bought a trailer load of it as scrap metal.  The metals as scrap were worth much more separately than combined so it was worth quite a bit to [...]

Billionaires and Philanthropy

Posted by on August 3, 2010 at 2:46 pm

It looks like Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet are getting what they hoped for. For those that don’t know, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet have started a movement.  It’s called the “Giving Pledge”.  Basically it’s a call for billionaires to commit to giving away half of their wealth to what ever [...]

Who’s to blame?

Posted by on October 16, 2008 at 9:52 pm

So it seems that just about every article in the news is about or related to the current economy and dismal state of things. Who am I to stay off the band wagon? So I’d like to just point out my views on who is to blame and what we can do to avoid worsening [...]

Big Numbers

Posted by on August 28, 2008 at 9:52 pm

Right now, there is $2.4 TRILLION in homes sitting empty in the USA. Let me type that our with numbers just so you can see how big that number really is. $2,400,000,000,000. That’s right, 13 digits. How many numbers do we deal with that have 13 digits, really? Not that many. Especially when it is [...]