I support Elizabeth Warren’s bid for President of the United States.  She has plans to address our multiple problems.  I admit I couldn’t swear by any of them.  Take her wealth tax plan, for example.   Generally speaking, a wealth tax works like this: “You calculate a house

In the opening scene of the film, The Graduate, the operative word was “plastics.”  Today, Dustin Hoffman is all grown up, though that scene remains a movie classic.  For billionaire Jeremy Grantham the new word for this era is “topsoil.”  Necessary to feed a burgeoning glo

Knowing the difference between good and bad debt can have a major impact on a person’s financial health. So writes Ben Steverman of Bloomber.com (Excerpted in The Week, August 14, 2015, pg. 33) Bad debt is credit card debt which imposes a higher interest rate than other types of loa