Finance

Capitalism is a brutal system in which people can freely trade goods and services. Sadly, it is the poor who suffer most under capitalism, but it can be slightly hard to detect.Here are ten signs you're poor in a capitalist system:Instead…

C.S. Lewis once wrote, “The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see.” As in morality, so too in investing. Morgan Housel’s new…

U.S. — As part of a limited-time offer to cash-strapped customers, fast-food giant McDonald's is now offering 36-month, 0% interest financing on all value menu items."We know how hard it can be to feed a family in a McDonald's drive-thru…

This past Columbus Day, I took my wife and kids to a pumpkin patch. While we had a good time, what struck us was the cost of the whole thing. Admission alone cost us $60 plus tax. If we weren’t so frugal, we could have easily spent another…

BEMIDJI, MN — With inflation and other economic woes continuing to plague the nation, The White House took the time to assure the nation over Labor Day that these troubling issues were only affecting people who needed to buy stuff. "Yes, we…

ST. PAUL, MN — Local man Dean Richardson caused a rift to open in the space-time continuum this morning when he foolishly used a credit card to purchase a Dave Ramsey book."I'm ready to finally get my financial life in order," said Mr.…

AUSTIN, TX — A barista working the morning shift at a local Starbucks had plenty of wisdom to volunteer upon an unsuspecting customer wearing a Tesla t-shirt about how Elon Musk was making all the wrong financial decisions."Elon Musk is the…

House Republicans are expanding their probe of major asset managers who are working to engineer a net-zero carbon emissions economy for potential violations of U.S. antitrust law. On Thursday, lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee…

A number of headlines have been making the rounds declaring that Black Lives Matter is going bankrupt. These are misleading, not only because they conflate the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLM GN) and the BLM movement, but also…

LEE'S SUMMIT, MO — Surprising findings from a new study show retail chain Target going "woke" has quickly resulted in more families getting themselves out of crippling debt than financial guru Dave Ramsey."The results of the study are truly…