Aug 25, 2026 | The Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
[Music playing in the background: “Where have all the Progressives gone? …. Oh, when will they ever learn.”] Next to eleven (YO), the number 40 is our most meaningful two-digit number. Every person who turned 40 knows this. It is prominent throughout the bible; the...
Jul 28, 2026 | The Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
For my blog last month, it was Pleonexia, the Greek word describing the insatiable greed of the ultra-rich. Today it is Plutocratifornia (Plu-toh-crati-fornia), my word for when plutocracy comes out of the closet in California, publicly demonstrating the unmistakable...
Jun 30, 2026 | The Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
It happened on Friday, June 12, 2026: Elon Musk, sooner than almost anyone expected, became a trillionaire. With so much written about this, it may not be necessary to say that a trillion dollars is one-million millions. But if you can agree with me that $50 million...
May 26, 2026 | The Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
Are you feeling the bbgb’s (my version of the heebie-jeebies, relating to the Bad Billionaire/Good Billionaire debate)? There have been a lot of efforts lately to convince us that there is such a thing as a good billionaire, and not just by billionaires. The arguments...
Apr 28, 2026 | The Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
In the 1966 movie Harper starring Paul Newman, there is a line that my memory ranks as one of the top 10 or so all-time best—”You’ve got a way of starting conversation that ends conversation!” That’s what it frequently feels like when I try to talk to...
Mar 31, 2026 | The Excessive Wealth Disorder Blog
Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers? Well, not all others, but it is the only time this century that Passover falls on April 1 (for you trivia buffs, it happened 5 times in the 20th century). I grew up enjoying the Passover celebration: it brought...
