Hard-wired into each of us is the simple truth that if we come together with the…
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I receive scores of xenophobic jokes and diatribes on email about undocumented Latinos coming to…
Last year, the city of Ottumwa reinvented itself. Up until that time, the southeast Iowa…
Paul McCulley parents his 20-year-old son with this principle: “If you want access to the…
One of the unfortunate ironies of our time is that money plays such a necessary…
Most people don’t understand how bankruptcy works. It’s not an end—it’s a new beginning. Bankruptcy…
BY JOE BRISBEN We have been discussing how the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department…
BY JOE BRISBEN I shared last month’s column ("National Health Care Myths Debunked") about T.R.…
BY JOE BRISBEN About 10 years ago, while performing my weekday morning ablutions, I would…
The minority is sometimes right; the majority is always wrong. —G.B. Shaw As you read…
The function of a bear market is to return money to its rightful owners. As…
Thirty cents for a cheese sandwich? That’s what it cost at Woolworth’s in the 1950s.…
A re we in a recession? How bad will it be? How long will it…
I hope that readers will enjoy my musings and perhaps begin to question some of…
BY ABIGAIL FOERSTNER Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), often called the father…