MONEY TALK Our Vast, Throwaway Nation By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Many visiting Europeans are stunned by the huge number of derelict and otherwise empty buildings we have. They ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Most of our cities show signs of manufacturing blight. Especially northern and rust-belt cities. In this state, a city does not qualify as a city unless it can show several shuttered factories, an empty mall, vacant storefronts, office buildings half-empty. Maybe an armory. Many of…
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Column by Tom Morgan, July 6, 2018 Money Talk On Fourth Of July, Love Letter To America We find dollops of hatred on the menu this 4th of July. Facebook bristles with diatribes. As do various social media portals. Politicians screech insults. Hollywood stars spit gutter language at the President. Mobs drive White House staff and their families from restaurants. Academics rev up poisonous demonstrations. They fill young minds with anti-American bile. News networks blister the administration. Endlessly. Protests morph…
TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK Political Cross-Dressers May Enjoy What's In Store More Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. The national mood has set me thinking. About bi-sexuality. You know, AC/DC. Also about pouting in the back seat of the car. First, the sex thing. I know, you were hoping sex would come first. Woody Allen reckoned that bi-sexuality doubles your…
TOM MORGAN’S MONEY TALK In D.C., Buying Influence IS Normal Editor’s Note: The column, Money Talk, by Tom Morgan of Franklin, the retired Oneonta investment counselor, is syndicated nationally. Here is this week’s column. Suppose you discovered your doctor runs a charity on the side. The charity gives away some money. But it spends most of its money on things that help the doctor. Often financially. How is the charity funded? Contributions from drug companies. They want the doc to prescribe…