Assets - stories

Will dementia swamp the system, drain our savings?

Medicare pays for less than 7% of dementia care. With dementia predicted to become much more prevalent, family savings are bound to suffer. [...]

Reason #3 to consume less and save more

Save by spending less. It can help you rely less on wages and get more from investment. [...]

If expert predictions are wrong

Most of us don’t realize how shaky most predictions are – and how useful they can still be. [...]

Know the enemy: economics and finance

Far too few Americans understand even the basics of economics and personal finance. Savvy families must. [...]

Why get out of debt?

Does it make sense to pay off your mortgage at a time when job security is low and inflation is predicted to increase? [...]

Shortages of metals, the prequel

China’s reduction of exports of rare earth metals could be the first of other shortages that affect consumer goods, jobs, and security. [...]

Rising sea-level hurts low land and low taxes

This example of sea-rise damage seems like the first domino in a chain that topples property values and tax base, and eventually town and state coffers. [...]

Why economic growth?

There are lots of reasons why our economy is in thrall to growth. Seems debt service is the most insistent. [...]

Renting – advantage #1

“The popular argument that renting your home is throwing money down the drain is really fallacious.” [...]

Chicken Little?

Are there exaggerations, faulty logic, self-serving bias in predictions of environmental and financial troubles ahead? [...]

Who’s betting big on an oil price rise?

Around 2013 or 2014 we begin to find that higher growth is nowhere matched by higher production of petroleum products. [...]