The Top Five Worst States for Retirement Taxes
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Between your IRA or 401(k), and whatever’s hopefully available from Social Security and you’ve planned to accrue enough regular income to allow you to live comfortably (though not extravagantly)...
Particularly if you’re over forty, you know how important it is to start planning for your retirement Unfortunately, you’re not an investment wizard You know virtually nothing about how to handle...
Our economy has a problem In fact, it has a number of problems, but one in particular Inflation is increasing significantly faster than income for most people Therefore, even if you’ve gotten a...
The toughest part of investing is keeping up with changes in the financial industry Why Because the pace of change is so slow That might seem counter-intuitive at first, but investing is a business...
If you said workers in our land of plenty haven’t saved enough for retirement, you’d be making a serious understatement According to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO),...
It’s been said that the rich are just like us, except they have more money But these days we can study the habits of the wealthy with scientific precision and, as it turns out, the rich are not...
The cryptocurrency bitcoin has been increasing in popularity the last few years Many people are heralding it as the future of currency: more stable than the dollar, and able to be used...
You aren’t going to want to hear this, but you’ll be glad you know it If you were going to design a poor quality asset, a really, really bad one, it wouldn’t be that hard First, you’d...
Gold and Stocks – The Best of Enemies It’s a well-known axiom in the financial marketplace: Stocks and gold travel in opposite directions When one is up, the other’s down and vice versa The...
Wealthy investors are stockpiling cash at levels we haven’t seen since 2001, in the wake of the Dot Com crash The cash slush pile is larger even than in 2008 when investors fled the market during...
Is there a place in our portfolios for both stocks and gold Does investing in one preclude investing in the other Ordinarily, according to Wall Street wisdom, you just might be a crackpot if you...
Even if you follow the mainstream financial news only occasionally, you’ll realize how much is made of exchange-traded funds, known as ETFs, these days ETFs have been around since 1989; the...
On Tuesday the news was flooded with stories about how Microsoft is about to purchase the business networking platform LinkedIn for just over a cool $262 billion That’s great news for the lucky...
Previously we’ve discussed the possibility that the world is moving toward some type of gold-backed exchange for settling trade debts Exactly what form that might take is hard to say It doesn’t...
It’s been a hectic past few weeks, and you’re about ready to throw up your hands So what, you say, if hedge fund king George Soros just invested heavily in gold What’s the big deal if...
The short answer is yes, you can You can hold actual gold (and silver) coins in your IRA It’s an account called a Gold IRA, and not only is it completely legal, it’s a great idea that’s...
In many respects a flat, or sideways market, like the one we’re seeing today, can be more dangerous than when markets are definitively up or down When markets are flying high, you know when you...
image: IMF head Christine Lagarde makes $467,940 annually, plus $83,760 to "maintain an appropriate scale of living" Her tax bill Zero It’s the oldest story in business They teach sophisticated...
Millions of Americans are sleep-walking into a financial nightmare If your income suddenly dropped by sixty percent would you still be able to make ends meet What if your car stopped working or you...
It is no surprise that most investors today are anxious about the political and financial uncertainty of the future Rising inflation, a war in Ukraine, tumultuous energy markets and weakening...
Of all the precious metals, gold shines as the most high-profile; a preferred investment for professional traders that acts as an effective hedge against a declining stock market and weakening...