More congregations than ever are hosting Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Now he’s looking at their budgets, too. Originally published in Christianity Today. It’s December 28, two days after the last Sunday of 2010. Dick Giesler has just reviewed the year’s financial numbers—three years after the start of the country’s worst economic disaster in nearly a… [Read more…]
March 23, 2010
I haven’t been a huge fan of the health care bill, and I’ve disliked the process throughout. Still, I’m not terribly engaged–politically speaking. What’s done is done, and there are aspects to this bill that I like. It seems to me that most people will appreciate being able to buy–and have subsidized–their health insurance if… [Read more…]
February 15, 2010
Retirees these days need plenty of money. They may spend almost as long in retirement as they do working. But that means that in old age, when our mental powers are in decline, we may need to be managing more money than ever. The average retirement age is 62. For men who reach that age,… [Read more…]
February 14, 2010
Early in the Bush Administration, Congress decided to phase out the estate tax–the so called “death tax.” The tax is paid upon the receipt of an inheritance. But, apparently to confuse everyone, Congress decided to only phase it out for a year. Next year, the tax returns full force, back to the levels it was… [Read more…]
January 20, 2010
New England’s Puritan settlers brought with them two ideas that have driven American society ever since: Calvinism and capitalism. From Calvinism’s birth in 16th-century Switzerland, its descendants, including the Puritans, developed ever more rigorous arguments for individual liberty, freedom of conscience, the rule of law, and the freedom to associate and to enter into contracts.… [Read more…]
August 24, 2009
Money can’t buy love; it can’t buy true friendship. In fact, all the best things in life, at MasterCard says, are priceless. It turns out however, all this conventional wisdom is wrong. New research, as reported in the Boston Globe, actually does buy happiness, if its correctly spent. “For deep-seated psychological reasons, when it comes to… [Read more…]
September 15, 2011
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