Posted: 4:05 PM Most of us have an idea of what a small-town banker should be like. It's George Bailey, the character Jimmy Stewart played in It's a Wonderful Life.

Posted: 4:01 PM I hate certain types of credit. I don't own a personal credit card, and I don't want one. Payday lending,tax-refund anticipation loans, and other forms of legalized loan sharking should be outlawed.

Posted: 3:54 PM I believe in self-employment. Every trend indicates that's from where the most growth and opportunity will come in the future.

Posted: 3:51 PM We've had a number of government bailouts and "stimulus" programs in recent years. Trillions of dollars have gone down the drain.

Updated: 8:56 PM A controversy about Eastern Kentucky stereotypes has developed in the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture race. Agriculture Commissioner is a statewide elected office in Kentucky.

Updated: 8:56 PM Darren Rovell did an excellent story on CNBC.com saying that "LeBron James Marketing May Never Recover." As he noted, LeBron is now one of the most hated stars in any professional sports. He went from admiration to derision on the heels of one of the stupidest public relations stunts ever conceived.

Posted: 2:45 PM A controversy about Eastern Kentucky stereotypes has developed in the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture race

Posted: 10:09 PM I hate to say "I told you so." I am in a small subset of lifelong Democrats (I voted for Obama) who have vehemently opposed the Wall Street bailouts since Day One.

Posted: 10:08 PM My longtime friend Rick Robinson, just received a "six figure" option for the movie rights to his novel Manifest Destiny.

Posted: 10:07 PM In 1991, the IBM plant in Lexington, Ky. became Lexmark. IBM offered employee severance packages. People could take the package or take a chance that Lexmark would keep them on.

Posted: 10:06 PM I hate the J.G. Wentworth commercial where people are screaming "It's my money and I want it now." I even hate it worse than the Cialis commercial where they are sitting in bathtubs in the middle of a field.

Posted: 10:04 PM Like most people, I recognize that I am going to die someday. Unlike most people, I have a lot of life insurance.

Posted: 10:52 PM "I believe the key to happiness is someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to." -Elvis Presley The King had it right. If you can do the three things he outlined, you have won the lottery of life.

Posted: 11:42 PM A Very Special Mother's Day Gift

Posted: 11:41 PM Ashley Judd appears to have a perfect life. She is a rich and famous actress who supports a number of good causes,. Ashley is always poised and together and seems to do the right thing. You can find copies of her half-sister Wynonna's mug shot. You won't find Ashley's.

Posted: 11:39 PM Dan Sullivan, the "Strategic Coach" for entrepreneurs, once said that all it took to be successful was to:

Posted: 11:32 PM Investment guru Pete Mahurin of Bowling Green is often described as "the Warren Buffett of Kentucky."

Posted: 11:32 PM Over 4 million people moved their money from Wall Street Banks in 2010, according to Sara Ackerman, project coordinator for Move Your Money.

Posted: 12:36 AM As the son of a professional gambler, I spent a lot of my childhood at race tracks. Not particularly nice race tracks.

Posted: 4:58 PM As a structured settlement consultant, I go to meditations and settlement conferences with people who anticipate receiving large sums of money. I ask every person the same question. "Forget about what is going on today. If you won the lottery, what would you spend the money on?"

Posted: 3:17 AM My first exposure to "White Rabbit" was when it was the theme song to a mid-1970's movie named "Go Ask Alice." That movie, about a high school drug abuser, was a haunting portrayal that reminded me of many of my friends. Several of my friends experimented with drugs.

Posted: 10:11 PM For my recent birthday, my daughter gave me a copy of Gary Taubes' new book, Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It.

Posted: 6:54 PM Tax refund loans (also called refund anticipation loans) are in a class of financial products marketed primarily to poor people.

Posted: 2:35 PM A recent battle in my home state of Kentucky gives a good preview of how the national battle to implement health care reform is going to go.

Posted: 11:01 PM Abraham Shakespeare should have been on top of the world. In 2006, he won $16.9 million in the Florida lottery.