Reviewed by: Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® Medal rating: Gold Medal “We already talked about it.” “No, we didn’t. This is the first I’ve heard about it.” “After Karen & Jim’s party last week, we talked about it. You agreed.” Does this conversation sound familiar? Sure,...
We just finished the longest bear (down) market since Elvis’ “Jailhouse Rock” was a top hit. (That was 1957-58.) How did we finish a bear market? As a reminder, a bear market is a drop of more than 20% from a recent highwater mark. From January through October last...
Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to father did it seem that they were all alike. That was father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there.
Title: Path Lit by Lightning; the Life of Jim Thorpe Written by: David Maraniss Review by: Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® Growing up in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, I knew of Jim Thorpe not as the world’s greatest athlete but as a little town in the...
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Bill O’Reilly usually irritated me when he was on the air, so I did not jump to read any of his “Killing” series of books.