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Blue States Thinking Creatively In Response to 2018 Federal Property Tax Deductibility Changes
Blue States are working hard to overcome many of the hits they took following the all-Republican Tax Law – a law that decidedly disadvantage Blue high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and California. ... Read →
Door Finally Opens to Taxing Non-Profits in 2018
The new Trumpian Tax Law just passed by Congress did a lot of very unfortunate things, most especially handing out disproportionate tax cuts and advantages to the most wealthy individuals and companies at the expense of everyone else. In... Read →
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2018 Is A Lousy Year to Leave Your Money Where It Earns Nothing
Happy New Year! 2018 is going to be a great year. Will it be another barnburner on the stock market like 2017? Maybe, but you sure cannot bet everything on it. What you can be sure of is that savings rates have moved up. There are... Read →
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A Five-Year Certificate of Deposit Paying 3% in 2018
As we begin 2018, 5-year Certificates of Deposit offered nationally and online don't yet earn 3%. Depending on where you live, you may however find a 5-year CD in your city offered by a local bank that pays 3%. Or, you may find a... Read →
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Turning a Blind Eye Again on Nursing Home Abuse
The last place anyone wants to be, and the one place many if not most end up, is a nursing home. Nursing homes are famous for turning a blind eye, even abusing those under their care. With only rare exceptions, they tend to be shabby,... Read →
Bitcoin and Blockchain: “That’s OK. I Didn’t Really Understand It At First Either”
I am old enough to have lived through 1999 and 2000. Actually, I am old enough to say that it is part of my adult experience. I worked in the internet and telecom sector then. We were building real things and the world was being... Read →
Hard to Believe!
It’s just plain hard to believe that Apple would intentionally engineer the slow down of the operating systems of older iPhones for any reason whatsoever, least of which would be to get users to discard their old phones and to buy new... Read →
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New Tax "Cut" Not Really A Christmas Gift for America
The details of Donald Trump’s and Congressional Republicans’ tax cut have only just come out. And, the details tell all. First, I would not go out and celebrate, unless you: are in the real estate business run a... Read →
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Fed Funds Rate is Raised to 1.25%
The Federal Reserve, acting today in Janet Yellen’s final meeting as the Chairman, voted to raise the Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points. The Fed funds target rate is now 1.25% to 1.50%. The Fed is continuing to guide towards three... Read →
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Girls and Women Need the Clubs of the Cave Dwellers
All the current, promising and well-meaning attention to the plight of women in the workplace is fine and good, and long overdue. It’s sad, however, to see really good people like Al Franken fall along with other less worthy men, but... Read →
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Rampant Abuse of the Elderly
When one is 70 plus, even 65 plus, telephones become their enemy and a real and present danger. Home phones are by far worse than cell phone, but both are plagues and both threaten older people’s sense of self and their pocketbook.... Read →
Our Predictions for 2018
It is that time of year – the end of one and the beginning of another. Every pundit is adding their economic predictions, so we’ll add ours. We’ll begin with one caveat. We had not seen the S&P going to 2600 in... Read →
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Throwing Out the Smartest Guy in Government
We all have to get through these times – times when the entire government is without mooring, where the President lacks stability and sanity, and where political leaders on both sides appear to have surrendered responsibility and... Read →
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Is Bitcoin a Bubble?
Bitcoins today offer an individual the possibility of becoming very, very rich by risking it all (including borrowing huge sums from friends family and shysters). By so doing, one could -- possibly – join the ranks in a matter of... Read →