LEAD DAD 101

Want to be a Finance Whiz? Get Out the Play-Doh

Here’s an admission guaranteed to win me friends and impress my tween: I love thinking about taxes. That’s not the same as…

Stocks go up and down. The price of oil does, too. And they do so regularly for all kinds of reasons, some rational, some not so much…

Dave Andrews, the subject of this week’s Company of Dads podcast, once flew Can Force One with the Canadian prime minister on board…

Flying was Dave Andrews’ dream. But family caused him to rethink his work in aviation. As an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force…

Today is Presidents’ Day. It’s also a day that every school-age child in America has off. So today’s pick is…

Friday is about fun. My fun, though, tends to mix serious and silly. Today, I’m kicking off a video series called “Paul Putts” on our…

There’s a dirty word that’s made a comeback in economic circles.Inflation.It has nothing to do with a pandemic-related increase in a…

A couple of weeks ago I read a story entitled “Everyone Has Left The Chat.” What struck me was it was right and personal. The weekly then…

What a Lead Dad shows his children, not what he tells them to do, matters the most, says Steve Israel, a top financial adviser, father of…

Another Super Bowl is in the books. And this one had two first-round draft picks going head to head. Even casual fans know the Bengals QB…

Youth sports are a fixture in every town in America, and so, too, are parents pitching in to coach. There are plenty of stories of…

The NFL is full of stories about players who have squandered the huge amount of money they made while playing. Steve Israel is not one of…