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Author: Tony Kendzior, CLU, ChFC - Financial Planner
I've lived happily, raised a family, and enjoyed a professional life in Gainesville for over 50 years. The next several years are full of promise. My goal is to find new clients, new friends and somehow share the wisdom I've accumulated over these many years. And when I have time, play a little golf and travel with my family. Cheers!
Expert: Social Security Doesn’t Contribute to the Deficit
This is a comment I came upon recently but cannot source. Mindful that the deficit is a major concern for all of us, and mindful that I am personally a recipient of a monthly check from Social Security, I want to share this with you. The question whether I am contributing to the deficit by …
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Star Stock Pickers Struggle to Beat Index
Until April of 2011, I was in the camp of those advisors scratching our heads, trying to figure out where the markets were heading. The idea is always to help our clients make money with their investments, since that’s the best way for us to make money. However, last April I started moving my clients …
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2011 Results
The most recent annual results from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The contest challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels and takes its name from the Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began his “Paul Clifford” with “It was a dark and stormy night.” My favorite this year is the following, which received …
Unemployment Rate Falls to Lowest Since March 2009
By Christopher S. Rugaber WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than two and a half years, as employers stepped up hiring in response to the slowly improving economy. The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped sharply to 8.6 percent last month, down …
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U.S. Clutching for Straws With Energy Independence
Two key paragraphs from the latest comments from Tom Barnett as they appeared last Monday in the World Politics Review. The United States is on the verge of an industrial renaissance, according to energy experts enthusiastic about technological advances surrounding the “fracking” of shale gas and the processing of “tight oil.” America is sitting on …
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It’s the Politics, Stupid!
By Michael Moran Much has been made of the depth of the economic crisis facing the United States, and it should not be underestimated. But only about 30 percent of the trouble facing the U.S. today is economic -- the U.S. economy, compared with all the other developed economies, is in the best structural and …
A Healthy Dose of Reality
Paying for healthcare was the primary topic of a recent issue of Financial Planning magazine. When it comes to retirements, we assume that each of us will qualify for Medicare. For those of us already qualified, Medicare is a lifesaver, no pun intended. But... When we are young and feeling good, we take our health …
Weekly Market Recap – 05DEC11
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Occupy Wall Street and the GOP
Fox Pollster Tells GOP Governors Why 'Occupy' Scares Him Thu, 12/01/2011 - 11:32pm — Joe Conason When the reigning wordsmith of the Republican right says that he is “frightened to death” by Occupy Wall Street, there must be a compelling reason for him to admit his fear. Such was the confession of Frank Luntz, famed …
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