Holiday Shoppers Started Earlier This Year. It used to be that Black Friday started the day after Thanksgiving.  Just in case you didn’t know, Black Friday got its name from retailers.  Investopedia states that it was the day that retailers had enough sales to put them “in the black”, an accounting expression referring to the […]

How Would Winning the Lotto Affect You? $587.5 million.  Let that sink in for a minute.  $587.5 million dollars!  That is just shy of half of the total spending for the entire state of Wyoming , that’s more than the National debt in 1862. With $587.5 million dollars you could buy 34 F-16 Fighters, half […]

Are You Facing Your Own Fiscal Cliff? You can’t turn on the News without seeing the talking heads discussing “Fiscal Cliff” this or “Fiscal Cliff” that.  What is the Fiscal Cliff anyway?  Will it really affect you and me?  Well, let’s see.  I’ll try to put all of this in a nut shell to make […]