Gary Duell

Tax time is an extremely emotion-laden month, whether you get a refund or a bill.  Emotionality and rationality tend to be mutually exclusive, don’t they?  As a result, we risk becoming easy fodder for bad ideas and the scam artists who promote them.  To Preserve your Wealth, avoiding mistakes is more important than finding the […]

Sorry fellow Progressives, Liberals & Democrats. The sad truth is, Job Creation is a corporate shell game unwittingly adopted by many of us, designed to perpetuate the Conservative Nanny State. Job creation sounds really nice, is politically expedient, but unfortunately is just another iteration of the thoroughly debunked “trickle down” economic theory.  Feel like you’re

The financial- and not so financial -media just love protecting their readers from  . . . look out!  Be careful!  Oh no!  ANNUITIES!!  Be very afraid!  Every article I’ve read (and I don’t use absolutes lightly) recommending against annuities commits one or more of these errors: Invalid comparisons.  For example, saying annuities have “high fees”

My favorite financial e-newsletter, Advisor One had an article last month about the rise in “Baby Boomer Investment Scams”.  The New Year seems like a good time to forward this to you and add a few things myself as well (Surprise!  I have an opinion!). In a hissy fit of exaggeration, though, AdvisorOne passes along

Very few aspects of our financial decision making are rational, if any (depending on the person!).  Despite history, despite having been burned over and over and over, I see the same patterns repeating and it actually is making me nauseous this time.  This isn’t out of self-righteousness or superiority; I’m as bad as anyone, if

Otherwise known as “ObamaCare” by its detractors (who thereby reveal they have never read the act), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the few bills excreted by Congress with congruence between its name and what it actually does.  The “ObamaCare” label is inaccurate because- after massive tinkering by the health care

Financial services marketing powerhouse, Genworth Financial, conducted a recent survey- the LifeJacket Study -to assess what you and I think.  The numbers below surprised me . . . because they support what I’ve always believed:  most of us want a one-stop shop when it comes to financial services, and, many of us let things slide

Don’t you love it when the Medicare Open enrollment period comes around every year?  I’m not even eligible yet but I’ve been getting all kinds of junk in the mail about which Medicare plan to buy.  And I hear that there is no lack of TV advertising.  (Oddly, the enrollment period was changed from 11/15-12/31

Not that it’s that interesting but I recently made some big changes: I closed my office and moved it back into my home.   I got rid of pickup loads of stuff.  And then I sold my pickup.   I’m as vegetarian as I can be.  In his book Eating Animals  Jonathan Foer points out that since

Yes, despite all the hysteria in the media, the windbags in Congress and most people I talk to, the debt ceiling is much ado about nothing.  Congress and the President are playing a game of chicken to distract you from what you should really care about:  the greatest theft of wealth from you and me