
Michael Manahan regularly writes articles and blog posts about business, entrepreneurship, careers, personal finance, economics and other topics of general interest. You can find those articles and posts at his website.

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

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

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

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

Airline Reservation Nightmares or Why You Shouldn’t Book Vacation Package Combos
Even though travel was uncertain during COVID, my friend and I booked a ski trip in France for January 2022. We booked it through Club Med and

Fair – The Word Most Abused by Politicians
Recently President Biden said that wealthy Americans need to pay their “fair share” of taxes. Hillary Clinton said the rich are not paying their “fair share.” At

Traveling in the Time of COVID or More Stupid Rules that Make No Sense
Finally, I got to travel. I haven’t been on a plane since February 2020 when I came back from a ski trip to St. Moritz in Switzerland.

Truth is Not Relative – One Truth is True, the Others are False Beliefs
Is truth relative? I ask this question because I recently made a post on LinkedIn about truth in the media. A Dr. Scott Dell (CPA, CPC, DBA),

Corporations – They are not People but They Still Need the Right to Free Speech
Are corporations people? Of course, corporations are not people. Yet sensationalistic journalists have been bandying about this idea that corporations are somehow now people, and that’s a

Six Story Telling Techniques Used by Writers and Directors That Should Be Scrapped
There are some things about TV shows and movies that I just do not like. These are personal. You might feel completely differently than I do. A

If Facebook Were Selling Tires, They’d be Shut Down for Selling Defective Products
I don’t have a problem with billionaires. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is worth over $100 billion. Good for him. But I do have a problem when

We Spend $6.5 Billion Every Year on Divorces – There Has to be a Better Way
Have you been through a divorce? How was the experience? I know that it varies from couple to couple. For some it’s not much more than filing