Managing a productive vegetable garden for longevity is a far more complicated endeavor than most young gardeners understand. Since the four main crop types require different primary nutrients, annual plant rotation must be practiced to deter nutrient depletion. This necessitates an education in companion planting, or the proximate placement of ‘like’ species to save water [...]

While mingling at Ed Slott’s Elite IRA Advisor Conference this week, an intrigued gentleman asked me to explain the difference between hiking and climbing. He seemed satisfied with the simple truth that hiking becomes climbing when special tools are required to give the mountaineer a technical advantage to safely ascend otherwise dangerous terrain. This seems [...]

President Trump’s tariffs are a ploy to reduce the U.S. trade imbalance and restore domestic manufacturing, but initiative goals indicate the replacement of tens of millions of foreign production jobs,¹ by a U.S. economy with only 7 million working-age unemployed, and only 2 million receiving benefits.² The extent to which the President will achieve his [...]