boomer talk

The Market and The Environment

The Nobel Committee not withstanding the marketplace will determine the impact of global warming.  Everything we hear on global warming is that it is bad.  Maybe not.  How can you tell?  The reaction...

National Insurance Swindle From Flordia

You knew they were going to try this.  Florida’s property owners don’t like the price they have to pay for homeowner’s huricane insurance.  The market tells them the truth, but they...

Follow-up on Internet Tax

I have to learn to keep my mouth shut on some things.  Maybe someone at Time Warner read my comments on the cost of Internet service, maybe not.  Anyway, I had an Internet service outage yesterday...

Internet Tax

Should Internet service be taxed?  Those against say it will inhibit the use and innovation on the Internet.  I don’t think so.  If you are against taxes in general and that government should...

The 2 Most Expensive Things

My father told me that the second most expensive thing you can do in your life is to get married.  The most expensive thing you can go is to get a divorce.  If you’ve anywhere as long as I have...

Hell Of A Week To Be A Boomer - Next?

You know what they called a 401K when the .com bubble burst?  A 201K.  That was a little gallows humor.  Every investment category took a hit.  Good investments took a hit because people needed to...

The “D” Word

Now it is the “D” word, draft.  Not the NFL or the NBA, but the US Army, and maybe the Marines.  Lt. General Lute, Deputy National Security Adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan, floated the...

The Illegal Immigrant Debate In the US

Unless you are a pure Native American you are here because someone in your line was an immigrant.  Those parents who left their the old world, be it east or west, were the bold ones, the aggressive...

Your Family Is Always Your Family

I’m out in Boston visiting my wife’s extended family.  I haven’t seen most of these people in more than 25 years.  I’ve heard about from time to time as I’m sure...

Listen

My maternal grandfather used to drive everybody nuts.  He would hire people to do work for him, like a plumber, and then argue with them about the work they were doing.  If you hire an expert to do...