Mandelman Matters | Stories That Matter

Here we are again, watching another year passing as we enjoy the holidays with our family and friends.  And yes… usually, I post my annual year-in-review poem (read to “Twas the Night Before Christmas”) on the actual night before Christmas, but although...

Lately, I’ve started to feel like I’ve got a part time job beating up on The New York Times over their coverage of reverse mortgages. It’s not like I want to devote time to beating up on our “newspaper of record,” it’s just that the once venerable news...

On September 24th of this year, Ron Lieber, who writes the “Your Money” column in the New York Times, wrote a piece on reverse mortgages. Why? I haven’t the foggiest idea… it’s clearly not an area of specialization of his, or anything remotely close...

I remember when I first saw Warren Miller’s extreme skiing videos years ago. It looked like he was throwing himself off a cliff and somehow not dying as he disappeared under ten feet of powder, occasionally dropping 100 feet or more at a time.
It looked insane… and I always thought he had to be at least somewhat insane to do the things he did. If you haven’t seen Miller do his thing, click the video below and you’ll get the idea in a hurry....