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Dow Jones 15,000 ? Another week, another record for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Despite media excitement, this is all remarkably average for bull markets....

Financial Forecasts, Fads & Fashions The New Year invariably inspires financial media commentators to publish their predictions for the next twelve months. The more specific...

Bored Review Design When we came to Laguna, the neighborhood welcome wagon put sticks and flags on our house. I asked, “What are those things...

Growing up in a Victorian farmhouse was not as romantic as one might think.  For one thing there was only one bathroom and it...

A Treat for Your Heart February is heart health awareness month and heart disease remains the top killer of men and women in this country....

By Mark Crantz   Laguna Beach.  Another perfect day in paradise, but now it's time to make New Year resolutions. Oh no!  And this year I'm...

Stocks For Going Steady Once again, stocks slumped for several days, prompting the media to sound storm warnings. Led by tech and biotechs, stocks then...

Good Bye, 2015; You’re Flat Time is running out for the stock market to put any exciting numbers on the scoreboard. With only one trading...

By Amy Capron  Carla met the love of her life Nicholas when abroad for a year studying the great museums of Europe and traveling on...

Advice From Mark Twain Stocks stumbled through the summer with the Dow Industrials losing 3% and then regained balance in September before the tragic situation...

War declared on freedom of speech Freedom of speech is under attack. In the last few weeks two incidents have seemed to draw a line...

It’s interesting that the forces of political correctness in the United States have slowly forced us to be ashamed of our culture. Recently I...

New Highs, Old Principles Stocks powered to new highs on both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500. Only a week ago, I...

 Many of us are incarcerated in a mental prison that is comprised of bricks of self-condemnation fashioned from our perceived mistakes, regrets, guilts and...

Show Me My Money My first house was a tract house.  The phase my home was in had been completed and the builder was in...