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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”  — William Butler Yeats Advanced education for America’s youth has become like a mill.  Young people are …

It may seem counter-intuitive, but the best way to get ahead in your day job may be to start and run a successful sideline business. There is one caveat: you …

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde During and right after the Great Depression (roughly 1929-1941), we passed a work ethic on to our children that became …

Here in Florida we have private jets flying overhead at fairly regular intervals, so we jokingly call them the Key Biscayne Air Force. Every time I see one flying over, …

The number of people invested in the stock market is the lowest since the late 1990s and, despite a recovery that’s seen market valuations return to record high levels, Americans …

Americans are obsessed with youth. Correction! Americans are obsessed by the idea of youth. We’re preoccupied with how to appear young and how to act young.  Particularly the over-50 set — we’ll …