PLAY THIS RADIO OUTTAKE LOUD…. Kevin J. Palmer The Quiet Rich
American Dream
My alma mater asked me to prepare a Business/Finance class. It will be called, Conversations about Financial Freedom for Reawaken American Dreams, (The Behavioral Aspect of Entrepreneurship). Changes in philosophy about financial security from my undergraduate days are astonishing. On campus it is no longer about work and money but passion and purpose. Millennials like […]
It was Sunday night August 9th when I sat down to reminisce about 1995 when Jerry Garcia died. He was only 53 but struggled with a cocaine and heroin addiction for years. Over medicating was an emblem of the Grateful Dead and their counter culture followers who played and danced their way across America. […]
On my hike today I heard a woman tell her friend that she was, “going to tie the dog in the yard because that dog sucks.” Wrong, I thought, “you suck.” The dog behaves only as well as it was trained and teaching a dog is the responsibility of the owner. Animals are completely […]
As recipient of the Governor’s Archaeology Award I am dedicated to the management of ancient cultural resources. A worthy steward of that ethic is the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS). Its proud history is one of peaks and troughs but primarily a consistent climb from a simple idea to an organization that was not only […]
On a Thanksgiving trip back east to my parents’ home a few years ago I listened to my father’s version of how our country’s social values have embarrassingly declined. “People today,” he said, “can’t create new wealth without the help of corrupt schemes.” I sensed sadness in his voice. The lessons he and […]
In a recent survey done by the SMA Institute we asked several men in three different cities who they had looked up to as boys. Who did they want to be most like as adults? All except two responded with a superstar figure form the sports or entertainment world, running the gamut from […]
The governor’s balanced budget initiative has brought back an old argument that comes up whenever it is time to cut spending. How much more money is needed to make education work? Spending money on kids is a great argument but maybe the question is about how the current educational system works. The best […]
Recently “arriving” to affluence this year was about 72,000 new 401(k) millionaires. That’s nearly twice as many as in 2012 according to a recent study by a firm that tracks the company’s 13 million retirement plans. The arrival of these new millionaires of course is greatly attributable to recent record gains in the […]