Tax

States vs. SALT

States vs. SALT Each year, thousands of professionals use their creativity and ingenuity to try to figure out the best ways to lower your federal

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Lifestyle

More Good Job Numbers

More Good Job Numbers By now, we should be pretty well accustomed to getting good news from the employment reports issued every month by the

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Defaults Down the Road

When it comes to municipal finances, we may have entered the calm before the storm.  You can go to the MuniNet Guide, which describes itself

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News

Deficit Funding

Many were alarmed when, on June 5, the good people who run Medicare and Social Security released a report that said that the Medicare program

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Investing Insight

Flattening Curve

The best indicator of a future recession is not perfect, and doesn’t provide an exact time or date, but economists have found that an inverted

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Investment

The Cost of Waiting

The median retirement portfolio account balance for persons age 56-61 is just $25,000—which is obviously not enough for a healthy retirement, and suggests that many

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Lifestyle

Mega Cash Returns

There wasn’t a lot of fanfare when Apple Computer announced that it would commit $100 billion of the excess cash it had laying around to

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