[column col=”1/4″] WEEKLY QUOTE “No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.” &endash;Napoleon Hill WEEKLY TIP Before 2016 begins, take a look at your spending patterns. Which expenses are necessary, which less so? In reviewing...
During the past few Decembers, taxpayers and tax preparers have waited anxiously for Congress to rescue expiring federal tax provisions. Usually, legislators pass an eleventh-hour bill to extend certain tax perks for another year and reinstate them for the current...
[column col=”1/4″] WEEKLY QUOTE “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” &endash;Ovid WEEKLY TIP Many people stay with the same bank for decades. Online tools now make it...
Claiming Social Security Benefits Soon? If you want to claim Social Security benefits soon, keep a date & a number in mind. The date is April 30, 2016. The number is 62. Recent changes to the Social Security benefit rules have made that date and that number very...
[column col=”1/4″] WEEKLY QUOTE “We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.” &endash;John Dewey WEEKLY TIP Too many people believe they can create a great lifestyle for themselves by buying goods and services. They...
The year in brief While the S&P 500 surprised to the upside in 2014 versus the projections of many analysts, it has performed below expectations so far in 2015. As this year began, not many Wall Street pros thought the index would tread water. The consensus...
