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The IRS does not do a good job of helping people understand capital gains taxes. They provide a worksheet to help you calculate it, but it has so many steps that it’s nearly impossible to figure out what’s going on.

“It is always a difficult experience for investors to stay in markets.”

Wash sale rules need to be followed when realizing capital losses for taxes but can be burdensome to track and monitor.

Give your children experience spending their own money.

“Historically there has been a wide variety of returns from US and International stocks, and when one does poorly often another does well.”

Even the most brilliantly crafted investment plan has to be given time to work.

This is a summary of the six steps required to create a well-crafted investment plan.

There are some cases that are not as straightforward and if you fall into these categories, you might not know whether or not you are allowed to contribute to a Roth IRA.

I recently read a foolish article entitled “Call for a National Savings Plan” that assumed we haven’t tried a national savings plan already.

This Schwab checking account provides six impressive services not true for most local banks.

Investment brokers like Schwab offer many services local banks offer but there are a few reasons why you might want to resist consolidating all of your accounts to a broker.

Only give someone who is required to honor your best interest the ability to trade in your account without talking to you.

More than many other candidates, Ted Cruz’s tax plan aims to fundamentally change our tax system.

Index investing seeks to track the return of a portion of the market. The opposite is active management.

David John Marotta was interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show discussing three big investing mistakes.