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One of the financial blogs I enjoy reading is called MisterSquirrel. I’m well aware of the irony of taking financial advice from someone who shares a nickname with tree-dwelling rodents …

Here’s a lesson for you — it’s called supply and demand. It states that when there’s little demand and your price is too high, you’re in trouble. That’s the dilemma …

The world is awash in apathy. You see it every day, from listless toll takers to lazy coffee shop employees who neglect to ask if you want a second cup.  …

As seen on TV’s endless discussion of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, everyone is looking for the black box. It would probably help speed things up if more people …

It’s easy — and fun — to make fun of North Korean boy dictator Kim Jong-un. Whether he’s pretending he has a space program, or forcing people to wear his …

Until two months ago, 59-year-old Claire T. looked forward to an idyllic retirement.  As a marketing executive for a large corporation for the last 25 years, she had saved and …

Imagine this client meeting at a public relations agency: you are presented with a city in financial turmoil. They have wide swaths of the city given over to rubble and …

The numbers don’t lie — and the story they tell from the US Census Bureau is that American demographics are changing. The process of change is slow but consistent, and …

Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the so-called “Bishop of Bling,” resigned as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg in Germany, in the wake of criticism from Pope Francis and others after a …

On Saturday, Pope Francis announced the newest member of the special commission he has put together to confront the Catholic Church’s chronic sexual abuse problems. Marie Collins, who was molested …