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Don McNay: Breaking the rules to do things right often good practice in...
“Smoking in the boys’ room, Smoking in the boys’ room, Now, teacher, don’t you fill me up with your rules” -Brownsville Station For nearly 20 years, our leaders decided traditional economic rules...
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Don McNay: Most have ‘lotto moment,’ make decisions about money that can go...
When the body of murdered Florida lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare was found, his mother said that on many occasions Shakespeare said he wished he had torn up the winning ticket. After lottery winner...
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Don McNay: Scandals leave us to wonder if Main Street will ever trust...
“You know you cannot trust them They know they can’t trust you.” -Steve Goodman (Jimmy Buffett) “Now Watergate does not bother me Does your conscience bother you?” -Lynyrd Skynyrd The scandal at...
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Don McNay: Successful fundraisers know the secret is asking for the donation...
Twenty-five years ago, Bob Babbage, who is now Kentucky’s most successful lobbyist, was running for State Auditor and I was his combination of Finance Chair/Campaign Chair/Press Secretary. It was a...
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Don McNay: The fake dry cleaners and lessons learned about running a business
“They’d call us gypsies, tramps and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down” -Cher I learned about outsourcing and other business techniques during my teenage...
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Don McNay: Give more thought to how you spend your money, less to how you...
“I don’t know what love has got to do with happiness But the times when we were happy Were the times we never tried” “I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender” -Jackson Browne...
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Don McNay: My bookmaker father would not like payday lending, once called...
He drinks beer and eats beanies Chases it down with ol’ Thunderbird wine Carries brass knuckles and a .44 Runs a loan shark business and a Mary Jane store. -Charlie Daniels Band If my father had...
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Don McNay: The ‘Yoko Ono’ factor in business can have significant consequences
“Oh Yoko, oh Yoko My love will turn you on” -John Lennon Prejudice and bias exist in the business world. There are some deep-seated prejudice and bias that cannot be explained with rational argument,...
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Don McNay: Why you shouldn’t give your children money before they turn 27...
“And here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice” - Bob Dylan I see people make the same mistakes over and over. This is...
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Don McNay: My financial life changed when I learned how to get rich slowly to...
It was ironic that right after I’d mentioned Jerry Springer (left) near the end of this column, I ran into him in the airport. I don’t know if he remembered me or my father, but he acted like he did...
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