Exactly one month before the Nov. 4 election, absentee ballots arrived in our mailbox Saturday. Holding mine, the General Election instantly is very real. All the names are right there on the ballot for me to mark my choices with a No. 2 pencil, stuff it all in the provided envelope, get it notarized, apply 76 [...]

Don’t have any idea what to do with your cash these days? You’re not alone. Economic turmoil and slumping markets have baffled even the most experienced of investors. As the old saying goes, if you want to double your money in this market, fold it in half and stick it in your pocket. Or, like the [...]

An email arrived this week containing this timely remembrance from Thomas Wolfe’s “You Can’t Go Home Again.” On October 24 [1929], in New York, in a marble-fronted building down in Wall Street, there was a sudden crash that was heard throughout the land. The dead and outworn husk of the America that had been had cracked [...]