In February, Nancy and I had a couple of extra hours and decided to check out the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey. One can see it from the Turnpike near the Meadowlands Stadium. Mills Corporation started planning…
Since writing the "Greedflation" article, I read Fareed Zakaria’s book, “Age of Revolutions”. The book is about political, industrial, and scientific revolutions. The French revolution was a failure (afterwards people were not better off) because entrepreneurship and making a profit…
https://www.eisneramper.com/insights/tax/biden-proposal-tax-legislation-0424/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Mt91Mp5gVRFldqL88FpQcUVxQHDdoXRvBg4-M1nsQB_aRDaSOt5CBUdgxpZI4khiM5lj67OhhC_lNLf7tlpPmPIAWxA&_hsmi=302754096&utm_content=302754096&utm_source=hs_email I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. The budget gets negotiated, I suppose, but Biden always said that he wanted to increase taxes on only the billionaires and big companies. Some of these changes, such as capping…
Spring 2024 I recently started receiving emails from Senator Bob Casey about his “Greedflation” campaign. The campaign started in 2020 and continues. The premise is that companies increasing prices for products more than inflation and/ or cutting product size are…
I recently went to see Bob Dylan on his Rough and Rowdy tour. Sadly, he didn’t play the old songs such as “Times”. He’s changed. A lot of my career was spent in banking. I always thought that banks would…
For a long time now, I have thought that Chevy should revive the “See the USA in your Chevrolet” with 1950’s theme song by Dinah Shore. They ought to use the music, with an updated video but they haven’t done…
All over America, towns are struggling with vacant space at street level. The problem started with Walmart siphoning off business and grew as online retailers vacuumed up more sales. It used to be that merchants owned the building and lived…
Much of this “Advice for Underconfident Students” works no matter what age you are, or whatever your journey. Enjoy - Lee Here’s my advice for today’s underconfident students - first generation or not – whether they are a parent, teacher,…
The FDIC came out with an interesting (at least to me, an ex-banker) study entitled: “Options for Deposit Insurance Reform”. Most of us haven’t thought too much about banks failing and deposit insurance for the last couple of years, that…
My friend, Greg Barsh, and I were discussing Social Security and Medicare. These entitlement programs are running out of money. None of the politicians that I know of are tackling the issue. No one, Republican or Democrat, wants to be…
