As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on December 12, 2024. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” -Milton Friedman We work our entire adult lives and save money in retirement plans just like we are told. We then retire and need to start drawing on these funds and sometimes we don’t exactly understand […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on December 7, 2024. “A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” Winston Churchill After a year with stellar stock market gains, many clients […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on November 28, 2024. “You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on November 22, 2024. “When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” -Alexis de Tocqueville Earlier this week I went to get a haircut. My barber, (he’d prefer to be called a hairdresser but I’m not a hairdresser kind of guy), was talking […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on November 14, 2024. “Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.” -Malcolm Forbes In the week that we read about Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed by fire, one of the hotter topics in the personal finance community regards the merits of the FIRE movement. What is […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on November 8, 2024. The day after the election of Donald Trump was full of euphoria on Wall Street. The stock market surged at the prospect of lower taxes, repealing onerous regulations and the prospect for strong economic growth. Leading the market charge higher was small-cap stocks. As […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on November 1, 2024. “We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.” -P. J. O’Rourke […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on October 12, 2024. “Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead, it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on September 27, 2024. “If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.” -Bertrand Russell This week we read a double Torah portion […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on September 20, 2024. “No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.” -James Earl Jones As you may have figured out by regularly reading this column, aside from liking to embarrass my children, I like to bring stories of […]
