Month: September 2015

By Doug Casey The overleveraging of the U.S. federal, state, and local governments, some corporations, and consumers is well known. This has long been the case, and most people are bored by the topic. If debt is a problem, it has been manageable for so long that it no longer seems like a problem. U.S. government debt has become an abstraction; it has no more meaning to the average investor than the prospect of a comet smacking into the earth in the next hundred millennia. Many financial commentators believe that debt doesn’t matter. We still hear ridiculous sound bites,...

By Robert LeVine People tend to think of higher education as a path to a good job or career. They research annual salaries and statistics that show how a college education results in substantially increased earnings, perhaps $1 million or more over a lifetime. Yet in most cases, the cost of student loans bind young adults just as they’re trying to progress, and obtaining a degree does not always equate to getting a good job, particularly in one’s chosen field. The problem is magnified when one doesn’t choose a suitable field. What is the true value of college? Academically,...

By Lonnie Harmon  Is your company sacrificing you to the false god of busyness? Is your day filled with an endless barrage of meetings, emails and presentation revisions? Do you arrive at work tense and stressed – dreading and anticipating an avalanche of urgent requests and directives? Do you have time to truly think… and really get anything done? Your time is under attack — and most companies are in passionate denial about the bottom line costs of the frenetic pace and endless pressure. Juliet Funt, daughter of Candid Camera’s creator Allen Funt, has founded WhiteSpace – a company dedicated to...