One great thing about the holiday season is pie. There's not much better than a slice of classic apple pie to top off a big holiday meal. However, baking a perfect apple pie is no easy feat. The novice pie-maker might assume that the Red Delicious apple left over from last week's grocery shopping would work [...]

Although it's now been a few months since we first heard about all the troubles at Wells Fargo, the fallout is still continuing. This should be a reminder to all institutions that reputation risk is a serious business. Failure to manage this risk can have heavy, long-lasting consequences. So Wells Fargo's mistakes can teach us [...]

The California Gold Rush brought over 300,000 people to California. As a result, San Francisco went from a small town of 200 to a boomtown of over 30,000, all in the space of a few years. Just the rumor of gold was enough to make people travel thousands of difficult miles to the wilderness of [...]

Originally published on CUInsight.com When I was young, a teacher shared an analogy that has always stuck with me. I can’t exactly remember what she called it, but I’ve taken to calling it “2-D Bob Meets 3-D Jill.” My teacher started by sketching a diagram on the board that looked something like this. Bob has [...]

A current hot topic in politics is immigration. For hundreds of years, people have been coming to the United States for hundreds of different reasons. But politics and history aside, people keep moving to the United States, and these people earn and spend money, and have to make financial decisions. For someone in a new [...]

Originally published on CuInsight.com BancorpSouth Bank, headquartered in Mississippi, took a $10.6 million misstep when its mortgage lending practices allegedly discriminated against African-American consumers. While the bank has not admitted to the allegations, it did agree to a proposed settlement and consent order with the CFPB and the U.S. Department of Justice of charges that [...]

The annual New York City Marathon is just a little over two weeks away. If you’re planning on running in it, you hopefully began training many months ago. Unless you’ve got some superhuman characteristics, the average person can’t simply run a marathon on a whim, without any training. However, if information comes to light that [...]

There are some things that people should probably ignore; like bad advice, things they can’t control, and doubts and fears that prevent them from doing good things. There are some things that people wish they could ignore; like the barking dog at 3 o’clock in the morning, the 6-year-old asking relentlessly for candy, and the [...]

Some hairstyles are timeless; others come and go faster than half-price electronics on black Friday. Every decade has had its hairstyle highs and lows. When it comes to the 80s, there were some truly awesome hairdos that, thankfully, stayed in the 80s. The mullet, for example. However, despite being 2016, there are (unfortunately) a few [...]

The story of the Trojan war is one of the most well-known in Greek mythology. The Spartans besieged Troy, but despite having both Achilles—the greatest warrior in Greek mythology—and a much larger army, the city stood. According to the myth, it was prophesied that Troy could not fall unless some very specific conditions (something about [...]