(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve been working on a project with MSN called “The Invested Life” over the past several months. One of the things that came up on a regular basis was dealing with the passing of a loved one, and how this might affect us all financially. The person I worked ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The recent news that senior citizens and others won’t be getting an increase in their Social Security checks in 2011 caused groans among all recipients. But not receiving a Social Security cost-of-living adjustment will hit African Americans and Latinos particularly hard. That’s because African Americans and Latinos rely on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) CreditCards.com has a nice article out on 9 Credit Score Myths That Do More Harm than Good. Some of the myths they debunk include: • Closing out old, inactive accounts will help your score • Opening (but not using) accounts will help your score • Paying off old debts ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I recently read a very interesting story about how so many black athletes are being hammered by the financial devastation of child support. Their paychecks are getting zapped to nothing, only to buy Coach purses and hair weaves for the women who’ve had their children. Perhaps the sex was good ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The latest installment of Soledad O’Brien’s Black in America series is long on faith and hope but short on practical solutions… Go ahead and watch “Almighty Debt,” the latest offering in CNN’s Black in America series, which premieres on Oct. 21, if you have 90 minutes to spend on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When recently presented with this question, I initially laughed because I know that a limited being with finite thoughts could never speak on behalf of His Creator. I later learned that the question about astronomical salaries for preachers evolved from a recent New York Times article that outlined a biographical ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) According to Forbes, “The richest 400 Americans got even richer this year.” With household incomes plunging for the second year in a row, fewer families earning over $100,000 a year and the ranks of the poor rising, one must contemplate how the super-rich were able to increase their wealth amidst ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I am participating with MSN in a project called “The Invested Life.” The program represents the launch of a series of web-based episodes that teach the fundamentals of investing to regular, everyday people. I’ve worked on the show for months, and I’ll be engaged in the project for the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Why all Black people should NOT start their own businesses… Copycatting is not a good reason to start your own business. We have enough barbershops and day cares… While entrepreneurship is a viable answer to the economic woes in any community, not everyone of color is capable of starting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I was recently checking out some of CNN’s special, “Black in America,” the show they seem to do once a year. In the series, African Americans are analyzed like lab rats in a cage, with producers highlighting every dysfunction imaginable, as if we have a monopoly on counter productive behavior. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There was a time, not too long ago, when Americans thought that everything bigger was better. Got a nice big home? Sweet. But a 5,000-square-foot McMansion showed that you were really living large. Rolling around in a sporty SUV? Cool. But having a huge (and expensive) Hummer really showed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The economy hasn’t been kind to organized labor — especially black organized labor. Why it’s poised for a comeback… Notwithstanding Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s late-summer paean to a phantom economic recovery (does he have imaginary playmates as well?), this Labor Day will be the bleakest for America’s workers since ...