Monthly Archives: June 2018

Good news for consumers and bad news for investors

Good news for consumers:  a tsunami of used cars coming off lease are continuing to put downward pressure on auto prices, which are on track to decline 20% this year alone. Record vehicle inventories, along with heavily indebted consumers, and … Continue reading

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Out of sight out of mind has enabled plastic disaster

Being able to send trillions of tons of plastic waste out of sight, by shipping it to landfills in poorer countries, is an unsustainable disaster for our global environment.  Meanwhile companies producing the waste are extracting their profits free of … Continue reading

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Financial resilience requires conscious steps to break from the herd

The Wall Street Journal runs this week with a detailed expose on the crisis of insufficient savings and income among Baby Boomers.  This problem will be an enduring international preoccupation from here, as older folks battle young folks and other … Continue reading

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