How much is the $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video imagines the budget as $100 in pennies to provide the answer.
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By David Nour, Founder – Relationship Economics
Are you LinkedIn®? Do you Spoke®, Twitter®, Jigsaw® or QAlias®? In 2009, will you get a Second Life®?
If these social networking concepts are not in your leadership development radar, you are ignoring a dynamic trend that could have a profound impact on key areas of your business such [...]
As a psychotherapist, I have been troubled by the lack of discussion in the financial world, the business arena, the therapeutic community, and the media about the effects of our emotional lives on our relationships with money and, as a result, on the economy, our country, and our world.
In this tough economic time, many people
Wealth transfer opportunities: A silver lining in today’s economy
Using trusts to transfer wealth
Part two of two
by Richard Kohan
Partner, Private Company Services/Personal Financial Services
The use of trusts offers asset protection for children as well as many other ways to reduce taxes while providing for and protecting your family members or others and, at the same time, [...]
Wealth transfer opportunities: A silver lining in today’s economy
A two-part series
Developing a sound approach
Part one of two
By Richard Kohan, national partner-in-charge of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Private Company Services High Net Worth Individual practice
Although every day lately seems to bring yet another morsel of negative economic news, wealth planning is one area in which you can benefit from [...]
The economy: The long-term employment and retirement situation for many Americans may be a lot worse than we thought for many people. The current economic environment including the bailouts, actions by the US Treasury and the overall monetary situation could cause taxes to return to historical averages or even higher than average.
This could place many [...]
Fenton Gets Rogers’ Latest View on China, the Mid East,
and the US Economic Meltdown
NEW YORK, NY May 17, 2007 — Investor Jim Rogers reveals bold opinions to strategist Bruce Fenton in an interview posted today on The Fenton Report (www.fentonreport.com) and YouTube.
“There is a staggering misconception about China about Japan, about Europe, about everywhere. [...]
by Bruce Fenton
Originally published in The Fenton Report on March 29, 2004
In 2003, the federal government treated nearly 24 million families to a tax credit check. The U.S. Treasury mailed checks to many people who claimed the Child Tax Credit last year as an advance payment for the credit’s increase (tax law changes in 2003 [...]
Property rich and portfolio poor is not a totally inaccurate way to describe the retirement plans of today’s baby boomers. The stock market bubble that burst several years ago, taking with it hopes of millionaire lifestyles in soon to be achieved retirement, has altered many retirement plans. But, thanks to changes in tax laws and [...]
by Bruce Fenton
Opponents to of tax cuts cite numerous reasons why tax cuts won’t work. Too much, benefits the rich over the poor, will lead to deficit spending, will waste the surplus… all concerns expressed by the doubters. However, they are ignoring history.
Somehow they forgot the legacy of the Reagan presidency. So, on the anniversary [...]