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Jack Be Nimble About Your Money
Oct 04, 2016
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In October a change goes into effect concerning money market mutual funds. From an earlier blog (9/9/16), you may remember mutual funds are counted as runnable debt, accounts not insured by the FDIC but are part of a bank’s debt obligations. To shore up a bank’s ability to wit
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Deaf, Dumb And Blind
Oct 03, 2016
Mark Cuban, billionaire NBA team owner, came out strong for Donald Trump, calling him “probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.” (“A Billionaire Changes his Mind,” by Ira Boudway, Bloomberg Businessweek, Sept. 19-25, 2016, pg. 35.) What attracted
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The Siren Call Of Discontent
Sep 29, 2016
I noticed a couple of weeks ago that Phyllis Schiafly died, founder of the Stop ERA movement and later the Eagle Forum, an institution dedicated to keeping women in the home. She was a firebrand who seldom stayed at home, herself, but opened every public forum by thanking her husban
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Cyber Crimes And Misdemeansors
Sep 27, 2016
Being swatted no longer conjures the image of a rolled up newspaper and a fly. It refers to people who open their front doors to find a swat team in full gear. Swatting is the latest form of cyber bullying after Gamegate (Bog 12/9/14), harassment originally aimed at “uppity” f
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To Debate Or Not To Debate, That Is The Question
Sep 26, 2016
I took up fencing as my sport in college. Over time I learned to be quick, meaning my movements were subtle enough to fool my opponent. While I performed well with fencers who were at or above my skill level, I fared miserably among those of few skills, those who imaged a sword wa
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I Think That I Shall Never See A Tree In Court
Sep 23, 2016
Under the law corporations are people, right? That ruling, by the way, wasn’t the outcome of Citizen’s United. It appeared in the 1886 case of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. While the Supreme Court didn’t settle the railroad case on the question of personhoo
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The News Media: Bread And Circus In A Time Of Crisis
Sep 22, 2016
A column by Leonard Pitts appeared in the Miami Herald recently entitled, “The End of Objective Truth.” (The Week, September 9, 2016, pg. 12.) His point was that falsehoods repeated over and over again gain an emotional credence that has “wrecked the idea of objective, k
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Why I Like My Stockbroker Better Than A Mutual Fund
Sep 21, 2016
Warren Buffett, the second richest man in America, says if he dies before his wife, she should invest her money in Vanguard’s Index Mutual Funds. That’s a conservative investment that isn’t likely to go far wrong but is it advice for everyone? A danger exists in being to
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While I was Sleeping Either I Or The World Fell On its Head
Sep 20, 2016
Sometimes I feel like a bat, viewing the world while hanging upside down. Let’s begin with the small absurdities: that some universities are allowing African-American students to re-segregate, allowing them to choose all black housing so they can avoid, “insensitive remarks.”
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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