You’ve done it. You stretch as far as you can and then thrust out your hand to grab something deep on a shelf. Often that works and the prize is in your hand
In his State of the Union address, President Obama outlined a number of ways to make education more affordable. I’m sure that most of you realize that the cost
If you’re human you couldn’t possibly have avoided thoughts of what you might do if you had won the recent Mega Millions lottery of over $640 million. While
This is the fifth of my four articles looking at how our country might structure a tax code. I realized that while my intention was not to recommend one way
Welcome to our fourth week of looking at tax systems. Today, I want to examine how your economic philosophy affects which system appeals to you. But first, a
This is the third in a series exploring how a tax system might be created or revised. Last week we looked at the basics of the flat tax. This week we turn our
Last week I introduced three ways to divide out who paid what in taxes to run the government. Today I want to look at the pros and cons of the flat tax system.
I’m no tax expert. I’m not an economist. And like most people, while I don’t enjoy paying taxes I do want the government to do things and that generally
Right now I’m having a love-hate relationship with the Republican Party. On the very first day of the new Congress, the House put in place a procedure that
Today I’m wrapping up a series that looked at examining how well you did compared to the market last year. First we determined that the “market” doesn’t contain
Last week I began a series on measuring your investment portfolio against “the market.” Our first problem: there is no one all-inclusive market. Even if you
Often when we enter a new year we look back upon the previous one and measure how we did. Whether this is good for your psyche or not, I’ll leave up to the
