Hard or Soft Landing?

Posted on October 12, 2006

Hard or Soft Landing? I began warning readers about a possible business slowdown in our future back in March of this year. Now just about everyone who is paying attention to the news has heard similar projections from other analysts and signs of the slowdown are becoming more obvious. Real estate sales are slumping and the Congressional budget office is planning on an 8% drop

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Who, Me? Biased?

Posted on September 12, 2006

Who, Me? Biased? It’s probably politically incorrect to admit this, but I can be a little prejudiced. We all have our biases, and some of them are healthy and some not. Keeping these predispositions from getting the best of us and blinding us to reality is a common problem we all deal with from time to time. We humans tend to invest when we are predisposed

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Which Investments are Best for Your IRA?

Posted on August 15, 2005

August 2005 Which Investments are Best for Your IRA? The latest tax law change has reduced the long-term capital gains tax and the tax on qualifying dividends to 15%. However, interest income, nonqualified dividends, and short-term capital gains will still be considered ordinary income and therefore taxed as high as 35%. In light of these changes, you may want to reevaluate which of your investments should

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