6+ hour, 3+ min ago   (538+ words) This article runs the actual numbers so you can. When Rocket Mortgage’s survey on financing home renovations asked 1,018 U.S. homeowners about renovation plans and funding methods, 53% said they would use personal savings. The remaining 47% planned to borrow — spreading across HELOCs…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1050+ words) (ThyBlackMan.com) If you are of a certain age, you were told growing up that, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The earliest known public use of this proverb or adage was on…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (458+ words) (ThyBlackMan.com) The Philadelphia 76ers have assembled one of the most aggressive roster overhauls of this NBA offseason, and the biggest piece arrived Friday morning when a 41 year old free agent decided where he would continue playing. Where he chose to…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (333+ words) Again, Trump failed to keep his word and Israel has viciously bombed civilian infrastructure, hospitals, schools, mosques and indiscriminately murdered innocent men, women and children in their quest to steal land and annex territory, yet Trump has not been successful…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (382+ words) (ThyBlackMan.com) American memory rarely allows complicated men to stay complicated, and few figures in our history have been flattened more thoroughly than the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. Start there, or do not bother starting. Now, about the caution....

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (628+ words) (ThyBlackMan.com) Many of today’s consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable cash flow to siphon off, are favored…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (346+ words) (ThyBlackMan.com) The most persistent weakness in our political tradition is no shortage of talent or courage, but a habit of waiting on one anointed figure to carry an entire race across the finish line. I have been voting since…...

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6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (266+ words) ThyBlackMan.com Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry 1 (ThyBlackMan.com) The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic At its eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are Asian or White Wait — whatâ…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (479+ words) (ThyBlackMan.com) As an economist, I have spent much of my life thinking about what money does. It measures value. It facilitates exchange. It stores wealth. But money also tells a story. Every portrait placed on a bill announces whom…...