May122013
Silent Trust Funds and FAFSA Financial Aid

Don’t Silent Trust Funds Constitute a Massive Loophole in Financial Aid Calculations?

Student Loans, Trust Funds10 Comments

My morning was spent reading the New Hampshire Bar Journal, Winter 2010 edition because I was interested in a piece by Joseph F. McDonald, III called Migrating Trusts to New Hampshire: The “Why” and the “How”.  New Hampshire, along with a very few other states, allows the existence of something known as a “silent trust” or “quiet trust”. It made me realize: I think a person could use these to drive a truck through the college financial aid process.

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Apr262013
1 ounce American gold eagle bullion coins on wooden background

This Is the Kind of Business Behavior That Disgusts Me

Case Studies & Profiles9 Comments

How can people do this and live with themselves?  This is the sort of thing that if I were running a company, I don’t care if we made millions of dollars a year in profit doing it, I’d shut it down.  I believe it is immoral.  Sure, it breaks no laws that I know of but it strikes me as ethically wrong.  It is the reason we need stronger consumer protection laws in the United States.  I believe it preys on the ignorant; the people who don’t know any better and who are trying to secure their future.

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Apr222013
Joan

I Forgot How Much I Loathe Don Draper in Mad Men

Movies10 Comments

While I’ve been working the past week or so, I’ve wanted some background noise so I loaded Netflix and began watching the 5th season of Mad Men, which I hadn’t started, yet.  I forgot how much I truly hate Don Draper.  I feel … contempt.  I loathe – that’s a rare sentiment for me but accurate, loathe – everything about him; how he treats people, how he betrays, without knowledge or consent, the women to whom he has made a commitment and whom love him, how he refuses to open himself up to others about his past or live in any sort of authentic or honest way with his family.

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