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Donald Trump began his reign in the Oval Office on January 20, 2017, inheriting an economy with a seven-year bull market, low inflation, and a low unemployment rate of less than 5%. After, the stock market moved on to set new all-time record highs while interest rates still remained close to their historic lows. That’s where we were and it all looked pretty dammed rosy, didn’t it?

But, with that kind of continued trend, one that has been almost a continuum of improvement ever since 2009 began, it is an inevitable fact that at some time we’d have to face the reality that an economic recession will come. It always does.

Today I am taking the opportunity to wish all of you a great winter holiday no matter what you are celebrating! Having a chance to catch your breath and spend some time with friends and family is a great way to conclude the year and get set for a high energy and hopefully fulfilling 2019 for everyone. As such, I will be taking the next two weeks off, so posts on the blog will resume on January 4th and the newsletter will resume on January 9th. In the meantime, please enjoy today’s “just for fun” post on the very best of the worst Christmas songs, in my own humble opinion.

Did you ever think about making music as a source of extra income? A side gig as a performer, recording artist, or songwriter? Ok, you may not really have those talents and you may never ever even try, but don’t think that it’s always only about sheer talent that does the trick. Writing the words and making up a tune can really be done by anyone if you think about it for a second. It can happen to the great and the unknown, too.

Today’s post is about a very difficult subject for most of us to discuss: financial racism and prejudice. It’s not the standard “save and earn some money” post and if you aren’t in the mood for a frank, tough read, I’d advise you here to skip to another blog today. But if you are still here, read on.

Racism and prejudice in America is in our faces every single day whether we choose to recognize it or not. It’s not just politics and it’s not just finances, it’s not just social and it’s not just religious. It’s all of the above. Continue reading

“What’s that got to do with…?” is an expression that is often used to show an irrelevance or non sequitur in a subject of discussion you are having. It’s an idiom and in its most common form like this, it is a retort to an irrelevant suggestion. I find myself saying it often these days but in reality, I really shouldn’t say it.

Economic discussions draw conclusions that every economic action somehow affects everything else that happens economically. The idiom in my example is trying to say that the “price of tea” is the farthest logical connection from the price of oil and is a sort of butterfly effect (the butterfly effect refers to the concept that small events are causes that can have large effects on us all). But is it? Well, surprise, surprise, surprise as Gomer Pyle said over and over again back in the day! Continue reading

When I say “funny money”, what do you think of? The first thing I believe most people would say is that the term funny money refers to counterfeit money, you know the kind you see in those old TCM classic films about the mobsters in the 1930’s and 40’s and how they would steal or counterfeit bucks that they then used for just about anything they wanted. Except for one big thing and that’s paying for a get out of jail free card. Jail is if course where they all eventually wound up, at least they do in the movies!

Most of us will never come into contact with bogus money and even if we did, would we ever notice it? Probably not because the methods of making it have improved over the years and besides who of us actually carries any cash around these days as the use of cash has become less and less every year. Fake money therefore has become pretty undetectable in the 21st century.

Funny Money May Be Hard to Find But the “Funny” About Money Isn’t

I was thinking about this today. The subject of money is mostly a very serious matter and one that is written about in volumes every day, but it is also frequently mentioned as part of the punchline in a joke. That joke can absolutely make you grin or chuckle so much when you hear it, and it might just be because what is being mocked illustrates our overwhelming obsession with and about it. So I thought just for fun, I’d try and put together some of the funniest lines ever spoken about our money. So here is a compilation of funny, quick, short one liner jokes and sayings all about money. Continue reading