In the summer of 2014 economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton embarked on a study of the relationship between happiness and suicide. It didn’t take long for them to find alarming statistics, and not just about suicide. The health of White middle-aged Americans, mostly men, was declining. That is not…

As I get older, it seems like time is accelerating. The days and weeks are flying by on their way to their final destination and an end to my journey. I guess that’s fact of nature. We are all racing towards our demise. …

This article was organically published in 2018. Some things never change. Have you noticed that the media uses a standard formula when covering school shootings? Only in the beginning do they report the Who, What Where and When of the tragedy. Immediately after reporting the news, they focus on the…

New entrants to the labor market need jobs too. Gallup released an interesting poll a few days ago. Most people in the United States are not very happy about the state of the economy. …

The Social Security Administration has been reminding me that I’ve come to the time of life when I have to make some decisions about retirement. Making those kinds of decisions leads to thinking about how I’m going to live in old age and where I’m going to die. That last one surprised me… It’s astonishing…

The path we are on is delivering us to a Trump dystopia. I find myself at a loss when someone casually shares a conspiracy theory. Nonsense suddenly coming out of someone’s mouth when I think I’m having a casual conversation throws me for a loop. Last week I mentioned to…

Economists are in agreement that the coming recession will be deep, lengthy and painful. Make no mistake, a recession has already begun. The general definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. We’re past that. And we all know it. Recent consumer surveys show that average people expect inflation to get…

Better think again. It looks like we are entering into a recession. All the signs are there… We watch as traffic directors at food banks organize long lines of cars. Every day we read fresh news articles about another company laying off workers. …

The student loan crisis illustrates how little value we value education. I don’t understand why there is so little understanding of this fact, or of the general loss of respect as a nation we have for educated people. If cars were taking the toll on the nation’s finances that the…