“What is your advice for new graduates?” asked a reporter friend who was writing a recent newspaper article.
Since we may have been conditioned to expect crashes, here is my “two cents” on the situation. Crashes rarely ever come when most people are asking about them. For example, how many people were asking about the looming housing crash in 2005? In fact, most of my clients were asking why we weren’t riding the real estate boom and what funds are available to invest in that specialized in real estate. People tend to forget that leading up to the tech bubble of 2000, lots of people were quitting their jobs to become day-traders in this new sector called internet commerce. Etoys.com (no longer in business) was going to revolutionize Christmas shopping and people HAD to have that stock. What could go wrong?
Little Caesar’s arena will open with a Kid Rock concert in September and will then be home to the Detroit Pistons and the Red Wings during their respective seasons. With $300 million public money being used to construct the arena, how much economic impact can the State expect as a result? Unfortunately, not much.
If you grew up in this area, you’ve probably enjoyed a scoop or two of Superman ice cream on a summer day – but did you know that the enduring flavor favorite was created right here in Michigan?
Have you ever had it happen that a thing you imagined in your mind, something you saw with your heart and created within yourself … that this “thing” came true? A dream, or a setting of a place that you read about and pieced together and wished, wished, wished to someday explore for yourself, even though you knew it was not real, was made up. A place from a time long ago, a place that never was, a place that was no more, or had never been.
Having been a dog owner my whole life, I have decided they are not only as smart as many people – including most of those who run for president – I think we can also learn a lot by observing how they live their lives.
My City Magazine has recently highlighted the art collections of various Greater Flint community members. I’d like to tell you a little about my own.
Meteorologically speaking, the start of summer is June 21 this year. The word “solstice” derives from Latin, meaning “sun stands still” because around this time, the sun appears to be standing still in the sky. The rest of the year, the Earth’s tilt on its axis causes the sun’s path in the sky to rise and fall from one day to the next.
Its temperatures are hotter, the landscape is more desolate, and the source of discontent is different – but the west Texas of the crime thriller Hell or High Water is a place to which Metro Flint can find kinship.
To say that the Trump Administration has been a volatile one would be sugar-coating it. I would estimate that when President Trump was elected, about 55% of U.S. citizens were devastated, 25% were curiously optimistic, and 20% were elated. That last group included what I consider to be the 5% of those who are diehard capitalist and the people who “run the money” when it comes to the markets. The stock markets, in general, have reacted very positively to this new administration.
Healthcare is one of our most pressing political issues, but I think the current debate is missing the mark. The problem is not a lack of insurance coverage, the problem is runaway costs. If healthcare costs can be restrained, coverage will follow.
Èze. I’d never heard of it before, wasn’t even certain how to pronounce it. We found it by chance, just by zooming in and out on an internet map of the French Riviera. The images that came up on the search looked lovely, and on a whim, we booked a hotel and eagerly awaited our trip.
