December 2021

Should the Government Force Businesses to Enforce Immigration Law?

Illegal immigration, and the status of illegal immigrants (or undocumented workers if you want to be politically correct), is a divisive issue on the American political landscape. One group wants to provide all sorts of benefits to illegal immigrants and a path to citizenship and the opposing group wants to deport many of those same …

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The Media and the Movie Industry are Obsessed with Bad Companies – But Are They Really that Bad?

I Googled the search term “bad companies.” Other than one result that was for the rock band Bad Company, the leading search results were about companies that according to the various authors are “bad.” The headlines include: The 18 Worst Companies in America, the 20 Worst Companies in the World to Work for, 10 Most …

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How to Store Electronic Files so You Can Find Them When You Need Them

Many companies have transitioned from storing documents in filing cabinets to storing documents electronically. The process has both positive and negative repercussions. On the positive side, filing cabinets take us space, and as the number of documents grow the documents must be put into storage boxes, labeled, and then stored somewhere. For paper heavy companies, …

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Kyle Rittenhouse, Ahmaud Arbery, Teachable Moments and Things That Are More Precious Than Life

Recently the president of the university where I teach accounting and finance to the CEOs and CFOs of tomorrow sent an email announcement following the verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases. I applaud the president for issuing statements in response to high profile matters in the news. I think it sends a …

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Did You Hear that the Biggest Genocide in Human History Occurred on American Soil?

A friend sent me a meme with the picture (not sure it if is a photo or a drawing) of a Native American person and the following words: “The biggest genocide in human history didn’t occur in Nazi Germany but on American soil. 100 million Native Americans were slaughtered and lost their homeland. Historical fact: …

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Yuval Noah Harari Equates Populist Leaders and Dictators With a 324 Word Statement that Make Absolutely No Sense

Yuval Noah Harari has become one of the leading thought leaders of today. Wikipedia describes him as a “public intellectual, historian and professor. “I know what an historian and a professor are, but I wasn’t too sure about the “public intellectual” part so I looked it up. Again, according to Wikipedia, “The term public intellectual …

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Quoted on CreditCardInsider.com on Applying for Credit Cards and Common Mistakes with Credit Cards

Recently the financial website creditcardinsider.com asked me to answer several questions about applying for credit cards, having credit cards and common mistakes with credit cards. Below are my responses: Should everyone have at least one credit card? Yes, everyone should have at least one credit card. Having a credit card can do three things. First, …

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Minimum Wage Proponents Giddy Over Results from Flawed Nobel Prize Winning Research

Three economists were awarded Nobel prizes for their work in studying the effects of minimum wages on unemployment. The prize was awarded for their methodology. The study of economics can be enhanced by “empirical experiments” as opposed to relying on computer models which always require reliance on assumptions, which may or may not be correct. …

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