by Louis Deas | Mar 26, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
Picture a bale of cotton in 1858. It leaves a Mississippi plantation, rides a steamboat down to New Orleans, gets financed by a bank in New York and insured by an insurance company, then crosses the Atlantic to Liverpool before a mill in Manchester spins it into...
by Louis Deas | Mar 19, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
NASCAR started with moonshine. Before the sponsor logos and the television contracts, there were bootleggers running liquor through the Appalachian mountains and outdriving the police on back roads. Eventually some of those drivers asked a better question about what...
by Louis Deas | Mar 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Ambassador Andrew Young turns 94 today, and it’s a moment worth pausing on, because his life represents one of the most important lessons in American leadership. He didn’t just march. He legislated. He negotiated. He governed. Ambassador Young showed a...
by Louis Deas | Mar 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Financial Literacy Crisis No One Is Talking About Here’s a statistic that should concern every American. According to a new survey from U.S. News & World Report, 59% of consumers don’t know that lenders use FICO scores to determine...
by Louis Deas | Mar 12, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
Nobody washes a rental car. You drive it, it gets dirty, and you hand it back to the owner to deal with. That is human nature, and it explains more about wealth in America than most economics textbooks do. My mother worked hourly jobs in the aircraft industry. She was...
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