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Straight Talk

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Opinion Columns, SOAPBOX

Straight Talk: Educational Excellence on Display

By Al Jacobs Though it’s taken many years to accomplish, the Santa Ana Unified School District, with 57,250 students – the largest in relatively prosperous…

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Straight Talk: Employment is not a Stroll in the Park

By Al Jacobs The Associated Press article titled “Many find U.S. workplace hostile” is revealing. It reports on an in-depth study by the Rand Corporation,…

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Straight Talk: Kudos to Dodd-Frank

By Al Jacobs For those of you whose memory reaches back to 2010, you’ll recall the nation’s economy was not then vibrant. More to the…

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Straight Talk: Why the Money Dissipates

By Al Jacobs An interesting presentation appeared on television recently. It revealed the federal government owns thousands of parcels of property throughout the country, many…

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Guest Opinion: Straight Talk: Gold as an Investment

By Al Jacobs A close friend recently asked me what I thought of gold as being an investment. I gave him the following response: “Gold…

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Straight Talk: Unemployment—Numbers Can Lie

  By Al Jacobs The most recent report from the U.S. Labor Department proclaims the nation’s official unemployment rate for May 2017 to be 4.3…

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Guest Opinion: Straight Talk: A Lesson in Economics

By Al Jacobs The number of persons that survive paycheck-to-paycheck is staggering. With the universal use of credit cards, on which a flood of interest…

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Guest Opinion: Straight Talk: All Hail the Federal Reserve

By Al Jacobs This article’s headline inspires thought about a pertinent question: “What does the Fed rate increase mean to you?” From this point on,…

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Guest Opinion: Straight Talk: The Search for a Respectable Return

By Al Jacobs Imagine a sober-minded young couple with a manageable home mortgage, no credit card debt, assets consisting of mutual funds, stocks and bank…

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Straight Talk: And the National Debt Grows Ever Larger

By Al Jacobs Traditions run deeply in America. On every Feb. 2, since 1887, the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerges, to great fanfare, from his home…

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Straight Talk: Neither Rhyme nor Reason

By Al Jacobs Several years ago I wrote an article titled “Why is Modern Poetry So Bad?”  In it I contended that the nation’s schools…

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Letter: Jacob’s ‘Straight Talk’ Triggers Sniggers

By Michael Striegl, Dana Point/Lake Forest I have a slight revision to make to Al Jacobs’ Straight Talk column in the Jan. 15 issue. Rather than…

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Straight Talk: The Horse’s Mouth

By Al Jacobs The article’s title caught my eye: “How to get ahead, from the horses’ mouths.” Its author, Harvey Mackay, a prominent businessman and…

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Straight Talk: The Monthly Prime Rate Ritual

By Al Jacobs During an appearance before the House Financial Services Committee on Nov. 4, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen commented as follows on the…

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Straight Talk: Outlawing Addiction

By Al Jacobs The reformers are hard at work. One of the measures just approved by the California State Senate will raise the age for…

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