Sean Connors

It’s become quite routine now...Halloween passes and seemingly the next day we start hearing Christmas commercials on the radio, seeing toys being advertised on television, even hearing…
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Some 49 million U.S. passports will expire within the next three years. As the USA Today reports, the millions who applied for 10-year passports in the wake of the 9/11 Commission’s…
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Taxes. Woo-hoo! Not your reaction? Didn’t think so. Did you know that in 2015, a new record was set for the most U.S. citizenships renounced? Did you also know that the…
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Saving money when flying has become something of a creed for frequent travelers. For anyone not flying on a weekly basis, however, sometimes we just want to save ourselves a headache…
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Most of us are familiar with the old distinctions of nation-states as either first, second, or third world countries. This terminology came about after WWII as a system to label nations…
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This being an election year in the U.S., news of national politics is unavoidable. If you have a newspaper delivered at home, watch television, or have internet access, it’s all but…
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By voting to exit the European Union, the United Kingdom is gambling with global finance in unprecedented ways. British withdrawal from the Eurozone sent the stock markets crashing,…
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The Problem With The Cultural Iceberg Metaphor For many years the “iceberg” metaphor has permeated cultural studies. The core of the idea is that for each distinct culture, there are…
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Brexit Highlights the Value of Gold By voting to exit the European Union, The United Kingdom is gambling with global finance in unprecedented ways. British withdrawal from the EU sent…
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United States economics, it’s sad to say, is not looking too promising. The Federal Reserve is printing cash at unprecedented, over-the-top rates. Interest rates are stagnant and…
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