What is a “buck?” The term’s origin may interest you. It seems that well over a hundred years ago, in Oklahoma, George Washington Miller, a budding entrepreneur, started what became America’s first theme park. Called the “101,” it featured bareback riders, Indian raids, roping, bronc riding, fake bank robberies, and a host of other amusements […]

We all have “assets” of various kinds and types. We have our looks, and this seems to be especially important to women, who go to great lengths and expense to maintain them. Us guys have looks, sort of anyway, which most do not go to any great length to maintain. But these assets we all […]

Is there any other kind?  As an example, suppose you are Sam Waksal, a doctor, who thinks he has developed a cancer fighting drug that really works.  Naturally, you must have government approval, and we all know how truthful and unbiased the government is, don’t we?  Well, the government says, “no dice” to poor Sam, […]

I know this is unusual, but it has to be done, simply because of its wide implications, and the fact that it might be the hinge on which the American economy swings. More and more letters have come to me about these columns on housing. Letters from South Carolina, California, Maine, Maryland, Ohio, Las Vegas, […]

I’ll never forget the raspberries Gold Eagle writers used to get, when we accurately predicted the stock market crash. “You guys are nuts,” is basically what our dire warnings were greeted with, by the 90% who disagreed with us. At my Kiwanis club, 2 years ago, when I warned a speaker who was stock-broker about […]