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Sports are one of the few things that can, nearly universally, impact and effect people and places around the world. Whether it’s the 2013 Boston Red Sox, whose World Series run united the city and helped breathe life back into it after the tragic Marathon bombings, or the New York Yankees, who, during the Fall of 2001, was America’s team, reaching the World Series only to lose to the Diamondbacks. Even so, it’s almost unimaginable that a sport can evoke emotions so strong as to prompt a country, in the midst of a civil war, to end fighting and unite....

The World Cup is a massive event. Roughly 46% of the global population watched the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and though still TBD, 2014 World Cup viewership totals are expected to surpass 2010 figures by a substantial amount. Said in other terms, close to 4 billion people will have watched the 2014 World Cup. And though World Cup fever has substantially subsided in the U.S. after the American national team’s heartbreaking loss to Belgium, the implications and effects of the World Cup are still very much felt, and will continue to be felt, in the U.S. and elsewhere,...

Figure 1     Figure 1 is awesome and worth further examination. So let's get started on that, beginning with the information concerning home ownership. As student debt is growing in size and prevalence, home ownership is dropping and the reason why one goes up while the other goes down, and vice versa, is pretty intuitive. When one incurs student debt, one becomes burdened with debt and all of its obligations. Those obligations include regular, mandatory interest payments that decrease the amount of money that you have for other everyday expenses and/or savings. Oh yeah, and if you do have money...

The job report released today is, by all accounts, filled with good news. Look no farther than the FX and equity markets for proof. The dollar is strengthening and the Dow closed at an all time high of 17,068.26. Not only is that an all time high, it marks the first time in history that the Dow has crossed the 17,000 threshold. A strong showing by the U.S. on all accounts. But let's use this time of happiness to discuss a concern about the U.S. economy. A huge concern. After all, as Bill Walsh, leadership guru and former head coach...