My Comments: Why, you ask, do I repost an article that on the face of it has nothing to do with investing money, or financial planning or making sure taxes are minimized. Well, because many of you are going to be investing money ten, twenty, and thirty years from now. Your lives will change from …
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Why Emerging Markets? Growth, Demographics and Yield
My Comments: In the early 90’s, I opened a branch here in Gainesville for a company called International Assets Advisor Corporation. This company, headquartered in Winter Park, FL was a leading proponent of having clients invested in markets beyond the US. It was a rather revolutionary idea at the time. The lead broker on the …
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Solved: 10 Social Security Mysteries
My Comments: Amid the budget crisis that seems to consume Washington and the national press are issues about social security that never seem to go away. This is spite of the fact that we are among the wealthiest nations on the planet and that it was deemed some 80 years ago that we could afford …
Lockheed Martin Scores Desalination Breakthrough?
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 …
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Americans Take Payroll-Tax Increase in Stride to Keep Spending
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 …
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For Tax Identity Thieves and Phishers, Business Is Booming
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 …
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THE ONLY SAFE WITHDRAWAL RATE
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 …
Investable Assets to Hit $80T by 2017
My Comments: When I saw this number, I had to reach far into my psyche to actually figure out how many dollars we’re talking about. And I’m someone who follows astronomy blog sites from time to time and am used to thinking in terms of billions of light years. It takes some time to get …
Mixed Signals Give Gold Investors Whiplash
Goldman Sachs declares an end to 12-year run-up of gold, just before Bernanke reaffirms monetary easing My Comments: Gold, in its many forms, from actual coins, to shares of gold mining companies across the globe, has been a strong investment for many people over these past few years. We can argue that it reached bubble …
Top 4 Commission-Free ETF Platforms
My Comments: I typically start a conversation with someone about investments by suggesting there are two types of investors: Those that want to do it themselves and those who decide they need some help. If they say they prefer to do it themselves, then my comment is usually to the effect that I'll help point …
Helping Define Your Financial Future 