This week’s vote from the Federal Reserve FOMC committee is going to have implications for quite some time. I think most of ...

This week we continue our series looking at the big life expenses that have outpaced the rate of inflation over the past several decades. Last week we covered housing. This week, let’s take a look at ...

I was sitting at Mackenzies Bar & Kitchen on the canal in Bristol, UK, with a friend. Just before 7pm, she got a text from ...

I talk about the Federal Reserve often in these letters, and for good reasons. Fed policy has enormous influence on the ...

Clearly, there must be a typo in that headline. I’m the one who is always preaching about getting the yield you deserve. So, ...

"No man who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do." — William Levitt, developer of Levittown, the first mass-produced American suburb Google searches for "can I afford a ...

Last week I noted the problems of sitting down with a blank screen and trying to figure out what to write. This week I have ...

"Violent revolutions do not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it... The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character." — Will Durant, The Lessons of ...

Next month I will begin my 27 th year of writing this letter. The way I write, how I come up with topics, when I write have all changed over time. But one thing is consistent: when I sit down to write ...

As I sat down to start my work week, I realized that I didn’t eat a single hot dog over the holiday weekend to celebrate the 250th birthday of America. Instead, I sat at Otto’s Pub and Brewery in ...