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November 5: My Last Waltz as a Newspaper Columnist
This November will mark my 10th year as a weekly newspaper columnist. It will also be my last one. I will submit my final column to the Richmond Register, the same place that gave me my start in 2003....
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“I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling about half past dead I just need some place where I can lay my head” -The Band This November will mark my 10th year as a weekly newspaper columnist. It will also be...
View ArticleThe Yoko Ono Factor
Prejudice and bias exist in the business world. There are some deep-seated prejudice and bias that cannot be explained with rational argument, thought or action. I call this the Yoko Ono factor. The...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Give Your Child Money Before Age 27
I see people make the same mistakes over and over. This is particularly true when watching people handle money for children. A number of children inherit money or receive money from an injury or other...
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Life Lessons About Creating Wealth
Don McNay. My approach toward wealth changed in 1992 when I went to a Vanderbilt University alumni meeting and heard William Spitz, the college’s treasurer, give a talk about his book, “Get Rich...
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Keen Babbage: The Flip Side of Breaking Bad’s Walter White
By DON McNAY Contributing Writer Dr. Keen Babbage is a middle-age, extremely intelligent high school teacher who found out that he had stage four cancer. Breaking Bad’s primary character, Walt White,...
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James Street The All-American Settlement Planner
For 20 years, my definition of a true Texan has been James Street. Fun with boundless ambition and the ultimate competitor. When James suddenly passed away at the age of 65, it was a major story around...
View ArticleMaking Washington Listen To Main Street
As I near the end of my ten years as a syndicated financial columnist, my goal has been to give people common sense financial insights. Many of them are in my new book, Don McNay’s Greatest Hits: Ten...
View ArticleBooks Without Wall Street
“There’s just too much to see Waiting in front of me And I know that I just can’t go wrong” – Jimmy Buffett Next week will be the last of my syndicated columns. My primary focus will be running an...
View ArticleLife Lessons From Lawyers, Journalists and 10 Years As A Columnist
“I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was alive.” – Walter White, “Breaking Bad” “People, you’ve got the power over what we do.” – Jackson Browne I have little in common with Walter...
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