U.S. History Highlights from 1492-1850
A few years ago, I was in Oaxaca, Mexico. My friend and I visited the iconic church with twin steeples. The plaque said it was built in 1557. How could that be so? The first settlement in America was in Jamestown in 1607... that's what my history instructors said or
Finances 103: Accounting Un-Complicated
The key issue of accounting is to provide a ‘snap-shot’ at a point in time of two items: How much do you have? How much are you making? When I left home for school, I had to become aware of managing my expenses which were quite simple: For example, let’s
AOC & HRC
I was asked to write about AOC, what a nice request. Having been in the financial world most of my last 50 years, I was amazed to hear AOC talk to a group about incremental income tax rates. Their reason being that I tried to explain to lay people that
Finance 102: Investment
I first heard of investing from my Dad when I was in high school. I don't recall any specifics except the idea that you can own a part of a company by buying stock in that company. It was about the time Alaska became a State and I had finished