Tracking inflation these days provides insights into two different areas, cost of everyday living and the future of interest rates. So, what are we seeing now
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When somebody is being paid to recommend a particular investment, there’s a good chance that it isn’t what an objective observer would call the best possible
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You probably know that the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness plan has been tied up in the courts for months, due to a lawsuit by the state of
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Maybe this financial planning strategy is a loophole, and maybe it should be closed based on current tax policy. But the recent tax act, and several previous
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Your home is your most valuable asset, right? Or maybe it’s your retirement portfolio. Chances are, if you’re under the age of 55, there is another part of
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Short-term traders often get whipsawed; it is an occupational hazard of trying to predict the fundamentally unknowable future
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’Tis the season for taxable dividends and capital gains to show up in your mutual fund account—and on your tax return.
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Many brokerage offices might assure you, verbally, that they follow a ‘best interest’ standard, but that term is currently not well-defined and subject to a lot
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If you believe, as many financial professionals do, that tax rates are going to go up in the future, then paying taxes now and eliminating future taxes provides
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When you look back on some of these economic predictions, you see that there is a bit of a gap between what was forecast and what actually happened in the
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It’s natural to look at returns this year and want to stop the bleeding, but that would mean selling and taking the risk that the markets will suddenly startle
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