When we read about the high wages earned by CEOs of corporations the justification is always the same.  Those high salaries are necessary to attract and keep good management.  But doesn’t the same logic apply to workers?  Aren’t good wages and good benefits part of keeping empl

Recently, I wrote that if corporations are people, they need to be better Americans. (blog 8/15/14)  They need to pay their taxes, for example.  Allan Sloan’s new article in Fortune explains one way some companies are shirking their duty.  (“Positively Un-American,” by Allan

I shocked a few friends when I announced that I’d sold my home and would be moving into a retirement center.  They weren’t surprised because they thought I was too young.  My grey hair and sagging jowls say otherwise.  So why the eyebrows lifted to form a question?  I suspect

Every year I pay  to have someone prepare my taxes.  I don’t use TurboTax because a friend’s experience left him tied in knots and feeling as if he’d been forced to waltz with an octopus.  That’s why I’d rather pay to have my taxes done than wander alone through the bramb

Writer Evgeny Morozov has given thought to the way collecting personal data on the internet has changed marketing strategies.  Based on our web searches, we consumers are targeted with messages that encourage us to spend more and more. (“The Mall,” by Evgeny Morozov, The New Repu

I’ve always been a saver.  I thank my dad for the habit.  When I was about 8 or 9, he marched me — still clutching my birthday money — into Bank of America to open a savings account.  Ours was a small town but even so, when I saw the carpeted interior and marble pilla

“Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12,” observes A. A. Gill in a recent article for Vanity Fair. (“Perfection Anxiety,” by A. A. Gill, Vanity Fair, May 2014 pgs. 120-122.) I would add, that as for the 12 year-old, the link between mon

I’ve often written about the advantages of growing older, but I won’t deny there are disadvantages, too. One of them is that we lose our financial acuity as we age. Unfortunately, unlike memory malfunctions, losing this skill is not easily perceived, according to writer Allan Roth

Of all the generations that went through the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the Millennials, ages 18-33, have suffered the most. That’s according to a recent survey by Money magazine, which notes these young people are not only saddled with college debt, but are facing a weak employme

Want your son or daughter to be admitted to the university of his or her dreams? You can if your child lives abroad and you are willing to spend between $15,000 – $30,000. For that sum, a consultant will pad an admission packet with a false history and false recommendations. Acc