Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, Inc., earned 2.635 million shares exercisable at $31.17 a share so far under his employee contract award. To earn these awards, Mr. Musk had...
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What Wage Gap?
What Wage Gap? The True Story of Why the Average Woman Earns Less than the Average Man We all have heard the refrain. There is a wage gap between men and women. Yet starting...
The Financial Crisis and Get out of Jail Cards
As everyone knows when you play the game of Monopoly you can buy a Get out of Jail Card. Well, in documents just released by the federal government, it appears that the...
IS THE SKY REALLY FALLING?
We certainly have had a roller coaster ride with the equity markets. As most of you know, there are several factors that are causing this current round of volatility: First,...
What Does A Shrinking Middleclass Really Mean
A new study by the Pew Research Center states that the middle class in America is shrinking to 50% from 62% in 1970. The study dated December 9, 2015 indicates that 120.8...
Many Guns, Many Deaths
The recent news of a couple possibly (three) gunman shooting innocent civilians in San Bernardino, CA has prompted a number of news outlets to point out that this is nothing...
Medicare Smoke & Mirrors
Here we have one of those slight of hands that politicians pull on taxpayers. The issue how to pay for a voter aggravating glitch in Medicare without increasing taxes for...
Millennials and the Slow Growth Economy
Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself but it does rhyme.” And we are seeing that rhyming with the Millennials and the economy of the 2000s compared with the...
What does legacy really mean?
If you wrote your own obituary what would you want it to say? What would others write in your obituary? What would be the truth in your obituary today? Here’s your activity:...
New Definitions of Retirement and the Unprepared Generations
We are in the midst of a great change in the way that we view retirement and consequentially how we must save for it. Retirees are now more than ever “retiring” less and...
The Global Age Wave
An interesting shift in population views in wealthy countries around the world is becoming more prevalent. Governments are mirroring the way of nagging parents who want to...
The Herd has Rights Too
Individual liberties permeate the news but somehow we forget that the public (often called the herd) has rights too. Let me site a few examples. The US military stands...
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