My Comments: From time to time, I get requests from various individuals who want to contribute an article for me to use as a blog post, giving them credit. This one is the result of such an effort. The writer has made several attempts to create an easy to read and understandable blog post. He …
Continue reading Trim Down Your Tax Obligations in 2013 Without Having to Convince the IRS
My Comments: I’ve been a licensed insurance agent since sometime in 1976, or was it 1975? I have helped place hundreds, if not thousands, of insurance contracts over these many years, some of which I know are still in force. This article is directed toward those who are dealing with elderly parents, some of whom …
These minor changes in your daily routine will make a major difference in your life and career. Happiness is the only true measure of personal success. Making other people happy is the highest expression of success, but it’s almost impossible to make others happy if you’re not happy yourself. With that in mind, here are …
My Thoughts on This: You’ve heard me talk about the future where my children are at an age where I am now. Roughly 2040. Seems like a long way away, but its really not. Today, I happen to have on a shirt that honors the Gators 1996 National Champtionship; that was 17 years ago, for …
Continue reading Lockheed Martin Scores Desalination Breakthrough?
My Comments: There is a lot of evidence and sentiment that 2013 will be a solid year. Housing starts are strong and will continue to be at least until interest rates start to climb. The jobs report continues to be positive with roughly 200K new jobs every month for the past four months. GDP growth …
Continue reading Americans Take Payroll-Tax Increase in Stride to Keep Spending
My Thoughts on This: One of the consequences of the deal entered into by Congress that will result in across the board budget cuts will be a greater inability on the part of the IRS to detect fraud and catch the bad guys when it comes to taxes. Many of us have little love lost …
Continue reading For Tax Identity Thieves and Phishers, Business Is Booming
My Thoughts on This: I was taught long ago that no one has a responsibility to pay more in taxes than is required. It’s up to you and I to figure out what is required. So we push the envelope and either through good fortune or because we really know what we are doing, we …
Continue reading The U.S. Tax System: How Did We Get Here? Pt. 1, the Early Years
The original plan was to post these every week. Some of you like to time the market and this report from J.P.Morgan is perhaps the best summary to help your decision making:
Farnarkeling is a sport which began in Mesopotamia, which literally means ‘between the rivers’. This would put it somewhere in Victoria or New South Wales between the Murray and the Darling. The word Farnarkeling is Icelandic in structure, Urdu in metre and Celtic in the intimacy of its relationship between meaning and tone. Farnarkeling is …
My Comments: For many years than I am aware of, there have been “experts” who have expressed their opinion about the optimum rate to withdraw money from accumulated retirement funds. The reason for this is to offset a fear by many of running out of money at some point before you die. Typically, that’s not …
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