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Here are ten principles for teaching children about money.

Most investors think that whenever you buy or sell a security the money is immediately deducted or deposited into your account. This is not true.

If a budget isn’t a team effort, one member of the family will hold the purse strings and everyone else will be resentful.

Here are the four criteria which must be met in order for margin loan interest to be tax deductible.

If you don’t have retirement savings in Roth IRAs, it’s time you considered their benefits. Assets in traditional IRAs can be rolled into Roth IRAs without a withdrawal penalty.

Too much leverage is risky because it endangers meeting your goals.

We tracked the price of a first class stamp over the last 130 years, noting the changes, to show the steady erosion in buying power during that time.

Continually curating a list of low cost funds is valuable for long term investors.

Without the burden of federal, state, and local taxes, you could leave your job at 2:27pm every day and earn the same salary.

We don’t normally recommend being on margin, but we recommend having the option in case it is needed.

David John Marotta was recently interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show, discussing taxation and the burden of government.

Most people are unaware that giving a gift can be a taxable event because they themselves have not yet experienced the tax.

Recency bias is perhaps the most difficult natural bias to overcome.

Any legislation which can include FINRA’s commission-based advisors will dilute what it means to be a fiduciary.

It is the season of spring cleaning, so here’s a calendar of ways to clean up your finances one step at a time.