You may remember Ben Stein from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off , or his smarty pants performances on the game show Win Ben Stein’s Money.  What you may not know is that he is a lawyer, economist, and financial author - to name a few. His wide range of experience makes him a very appropriate author [...]

I while ago I took a short road trip with my father and we listened to “Beat the Time and Money Trap” by Michael LeBouf. It’s a 6 CD audio program.
LeBouf makes the point that Americans in general are working more and more, and are not getting ahead of the financial game. We spend less [...]

I’ve got a bookshelf full of works by folks like Napoleon Hill, Benjamin Franklin, Earl Nightingale and Dale Carnegie. They were all enormously successful and masters of communication. I could read them a hundred times, and never stop learning. If I could implement the principles in those relatively few works, I would have all the [...]

Someone recently passed me along a copy of “The Automatic Millionaire” by David Bach. I was completely prepared for it to be just another rehash of the ideas in “The Richest Man In Babylon,” but I was pleasantly surprised.
Not that rehashing those ideas is bad, mind you. I believe concepts like paying yourself first and [...]