The typical American Dream…  A secure life-time position with a strong, respectful and respectable employer… a loving spouse, 2.1 children, and a house in the suburbs or other peaceful, crime-free neighborhood…  and, perhaps, even a white picket, rose-lined fence to keep the dog in …and the mailman out.
Whatever your dream variation may entail… one seeming [...]

A consultant friend needed assistance and asked me to coffee recently…  It turns out that this particular coffee topic wasn’t going to be about a client or new project pending, but rather his own financial turmoil.  One of his business ventures (not his consultancy) had found itself well behind the eight ball with Uncle Sam [...]

You’ve all heard me lament on our government’s still not having done anything to address the market that triggered our overall financial demise… namely, the Real Estate Market.  …Well, is often the case, their negligence and/or highly substandard oversight on the matter is building yet another “trigger”.
No matter how you look at it (of course [...]