(ThyBlackMan.com) What are you selling? Before you say yourself, think of the EMOTION your brand is moving with. Even if you don’t own a business, non-profit, or other entity that pushes goods, services, or merchandise, everyone has a personal brand that’s unbelievably valuable. In fact, having a strong personal brand is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Do you often find yourself writing about things you love? Are looking for ways to put your talent to work? Blogging is an art in itself. It talks about an individual’s take on things that resonate with them. It could be fashion, politics, lifestyle and anything and everything. Blogging ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) In the early stages of the 2020 presidential campaign, even as Democrat hopefuls have tried to distinguish themselves from their many rivals, one ideal they all seem to embrace is a disdain for wealthy people—other than themselves, of course. They consistently pander to the growing progressive base’s desire to ...

(ThyBlackMan.com)  The April unemployment rate, at 3.6 percent, is at its lowest rate since December 1969.  Payroll employment increased by more than 250,000, outperforming expectations and reversing the disappointing job creation numbers of last month.  First quarter growth was reported at 3.2 percent, a robust figure that exceeds estimates, earlier this year, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Which class of full-time, year-round American workers has the highest median earnings? Is it the class that works for private-sector employers? Is it the class that works for the government? Or is it the entrepreneurial class, those of whom employ themselves? According to the Census Bureau Personal Income Table 07 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Online business is the typical business the young generation are currently taking up. They are useful when harnessed appropriately as they can give a reasonable margin of profits. The main challenge that those aspiring to start small online business face is that the venture is not easy as the name ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently we have witnessed a boom in the economy, seeing the stock market continue to rise, gas prices remain affordable, but more importantly, home values are continuing to improve.  That is completely flipped from a decade ago when we found homeowners underwater as values rapidly declined, as we noticed with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It may have happened bit by bit without you realizing it, or perhaps in one fatal blow to your bank account. Whatever the case, you have now reached a point where you are in a financial crisis, and you don’t see a way out. The fact that you are ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Starting up a new business venture, or expanding an existing one, can make you feel like a kid in a candy store. All of a sudden, you have a bit of money to play with, and you want to go crazy with it. However, it’s essential to be sensible ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If your life is anything like my own, you know that both success and failure each carry their own set of challenges and opportunities.   Being black only serves to compound these issues, because African Americans have an economic history that is littered with the symptoms of severe, long-term racial ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) For the past ten years, inflation has averaged less than two percent with two exceptions:  Health Care (~six percent) and College Tuition (~eight percent).  An eight percent college inflation rate means the cost of college doubles every nine years. Think of it this way, if your 18-year-old daughter enters ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) It is not surprising to get excited with everything that’s new – new relationships, new job, new things. However, as time passes by, you will start to get bored and exhausted with it. When you’ve been working on the same company with the same job for years, things will ...