Nothing feels so good as stepping into a hot steamy shower on a cold winter day, especially when you’re experiencing the fever and chills of a cold. Unless you’re living in California, that is. There’s no such thing as a “hot steamy shower” here. Not with all the regulations that govern the distribution and delivery…

Lord Kelvin famously pronounced, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind”. At the O’Neil Center we say, “If it can’t be measured, measure it anyway!” Whether it…

Dear FreedomFest Attendees, Fidel Castro was a brutal communist dictator and war criminal whose life spanned almost the entire era of the rise and fall of Communism.   He was born just nine years after the Bolshevik Revolution began in Russia, and lived to see the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.  But Communism is still not dead.  Under…

As is the custom in many homes, our Thanksgiving meal ended with each of us at the table expressing what we’re most grateful for this year. One of our guests, whose wife is expecting their second child, said, “I’ll go first!” Then he smiled and said, “I’m grateful for my DVR.” We all laughed, but…

I read a Forbes Magazine article back in September titled “Income During the Crash”, written by William Baldwin. It made me ponder the choices clients have for generating income from their savings—while considering the emotional roller coaster that comes with monitoring your investments regularly. The safest-sounding decision would be to convert your retirement savings into…