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Tax Planning for the US Supreme Court's Health Care Decision
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 5:32pm | 644President Obama’s federal health care law requires almost everyone to be insured, and ensures that coverage will be made available to those already ill or in need of expensive care. The ruling clears the way for a large restructuring of the health care system and affects virtually every...
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Three Key Mistakes Investors Make
Monday, July 2, 2012 - 11:18am | 788By Jeff Voudrie, Minyanville One of the most difficult aspects of investing for retirees is to go against the investing tide. We have all heard that we need to buy low and sell high, but few investors are able to consistently do it. Invariably, we give in to our emotions and end up investing at...
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The Real Deal on Wall Street: Kind of Sad Investors Don't Know These Six Words
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 12:18pm | 669One integral piece to completing the analytical puzzle for me and selecting stocks for our Decoding Wall St. portfolio is the dissection of action words and jargon. For instance, if a CEO utters such nonsense as, "sales will be relatively strong," it could mean his or her company's sales - like...
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New Tax Rates and Adjustments for 2012 Income and Estate Planning
Monday, June 25, 2012 - 11:21am | 1130Many lawyers, tax professionals, and financial planners around the USA are focused on the new tax laws, changes, adjustments, and rates. While the tax rates and estate taxes are presently fair for most Americans, the estate taxes are set to rocket up in 2013 if changes do not occur. This...
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Six Rules to Follow When Picking Stocks
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 6:30pm | 946With so many options, selecting stocks can be a challenge for the average investor. While each individual's goals may alter their investing framework, having a clear set of rules can help. The following are six basic rules to consider: Rule One: - Invest in stocks that offer an easy-to-understand...
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4 Traits Of A Great Index Fund
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 11:39am | 916For more from Investopedia: Read about what a new fund manager will cost you here. Read about father's day gifts that dads regret getting here. Learn about the challenges female-owned companies face here. Read about the risks of real estate sector funds here. Read about the whistleblowers set to...
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Think Like Groucho Marx, and Four Other Tips for Avoiding the Next Facebook
Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 12:54pm | 1786By Michael Comeau, Minyanville Did you get burned by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), thinking that getting a few shares of Wall Street's next sure thing would make you big bucks, as some TV prognosticators insisted? If the answer is yes, or if you'd like to avoid stepping in similar steaming messes of...
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9 European Financial Crises You MUST Know, Now!
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 11:52am | 503We are cutting right to the chase today. The re-emergence of the EU financial crisis as a ginormous risk to your personal wealth is going on two plus months. As of late, we have begun to see the same terms being used by Wall Street pros to explain the developments (sound smart: news flow),...
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The Lie That Is Social Security
Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 2:12pm | 1172By Lance Roberts, Street Talk Live The problems facing the U.S. economy are daunting especially when it comes the issues of Government spending and the current deficit. We recently wrote about the dependency on Government programs which is currently making up as much as 35% of personal incomes...
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Are Taxes Too Low in the USA?
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 9:05am | 751A recent Bloomberg Businessweek article, “Mr. Normal Meets Mrs. Merkel” got me thinking. Why are Americans screaming about their tax levels? We have among the lowest federal tax rates in the civilized world and certainly the lowest our country has experienced in the past several decades. In the...
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How to Take the Temperature of a Stock Market
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 5:02am | 830On every business news homepage there is what we call a “thermometer story.” In a thermometer story, the writer will bring to the surface an abundant amount of issues, or news items, for investors to ponder. By doing this, an investor is supposed to get a solid grasp on the mental state of the...
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Tax Time 2012 - Wealth Management, Taxes and Beyond
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 1:08pm | 977As a wealth management consultant and professor for over a decade, it is that time again to file our taxes. With tax filings, we must document our income, expenses, deductions, exemptions, retirement contributions and so forth. Some of us must file our taxes for partnerships or corporations....
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IRS, Why Force Taxpayers to Reconcile Securities-Broker 1099-Bs to Tax Returns, When Your Rules are Apples vs. Oranges?
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 9:45am | 1899By Robert A. Green, CPA and founder of Green & Company Inc. (GreenTraderTax.com and GreenTraderFunds.com)< br/> Continuation of our blog series on problems with 1099s for 2011 taxes. Contrary to public perception, securities brokers' cost-basis reporting on 1099-Bs rarely matches...
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How the F%*$ Do You Sell Your S*#%?
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 3:29pm | 895You know how the saying goes: “A girl can never have too much stuff.” …Or, can she? There are actually many reasons that you might need to ditch some of your stuff: spring cleaning, moving to another city, or perhaps moving in with your sig-o (do you honestly need two coffeemakers?)....
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Coaching: A Fast Track to Top Trading
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 3:14pm | 795To become a highly successful trader in the shortest amount of time takes the skills of professional coaches to assist the want-to-be trader in reach this fast track goal. When a novice begins to think about becoming a trader, he has the dream of already having achieved his goal. He sees...