Belle Didn’t Really Love Scrooge
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Belle measures Ebenezer’s love for her by what he spends on her directly. Investments count for nothing.

Tax Planning Tips for 2006
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In order to make full use of these tax-saving tips, be sure to visit your tax professional before year’s end. Once January 1st rolls around, there’s little else you can do but pay up.

Cyber Monday
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This year, the busiest day will likely be two weeks later on Monday, December 11th.

Tax Planning for Small Business Owners
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Solo 401(k)s permit you to contribute to the plan both as the “employer” and as the “employee.”

Conservation Easements
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Before executing a conservation easement donation, you should be certain that it is in line with your financial goals.

NAPFA Consumer Education Foundation
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Fewer than 20 percent of investors are financially literate.

P/E Ratio
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P/E ratio tells you how many dollars you have to invest to receive $1 in earnings.

Roth IRA vs. the Traditional IRA
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Historically income taxes have not been this low since 1931.

Virginia Is For Business Lovers
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More businesses migrate across state borders than national borders.

Qualified 529 Spending
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Virginians can take a $2,000 state tax deduction simply by flowing their money through a 529 account for a day.

Reverse Mortgages Are A Last Resort
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Although the lender almost always wins, a reverse mortgage does offer a Band-Aid solution to pending cash flow problems.

David John Marotta: What Is A Contrarian?
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The markets are brilliant long-term, but short-term they have the IQ of a gnat.

ARM Yourself For Mortgage Rate Increases
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The party’s over for home owners who sought the lower initial payments of ARMs.

Foreign Freedom Investing 2006
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On average, international stocks appreciate more than US stocks, and stocks in countries with the most economic freedom appreciate more than the international average.

Socially Responsible Investing
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Delegating your morality to a fund’s screening process is like using a blunt instrument to do brain surgery.

Avoid Capital Gains Tax on the Sale of Your Home
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Consider moving your official place of residence to your vacation house, live in it 760 days out of five years, and then take the exclusion.

The United States – Land Of The Free
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“A wise and frugal government shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.” – Jefferson

O Canada, The True North Strong and Free!
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Canada is the one major country that is not included in the EAFE (Europe, Australia, and Far East) foreign index. Not only are they good neighbors but a good investment.

Health Savings Accounts
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One out of every ten patients consume 69 percent of health care costs. The other nine would benefit from an HSA.

Seven Financial Rules For Marital Bliss
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An overwhelming number of failed marriages cite financial troubles as a major factor in their breakup.

Outlook May 2006
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Rebalancing means selling what has done well and buying what has done poorly, not visa versa.

Community College Can Provide the Best Education
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Community college for the first two years is the best deal to avoid the mountains of student debt and still graduate from a top-rate school.

Tax Freedom Day Arrives on April 26th, 2006
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Due to our progressive tax system, your taxes increase even if your buying power does not.

Donald Mortlock – Making a Free Market
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My grandfather Donald Mortlock worked on Wall Street during and after the 1929 crash. The firm he worked for was a “market maker,” a company which helped to literally “make a market” in several stocks.

Florence Mortlock – Dignity is a Happy Ending
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The life of my grandmother Florence Mortlock provided me with many life lessons on finance and financial planning.

VRS: A Bird in Hand or Two in the Bush?
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Many people in this situation would choose the quick cash.

Eighty – Twenty Rule of Asset Allocation
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Investors are quick to forget that the markets also go down.

The French Kiss Of Death
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French labor laws have made doing business in France with French employees very unattractive.

How Your Children Can Win the Stock Market Game
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To meet your goals you don’t need to beat the investment returns of everyone else. Instead, you want a decent return in order to retire comfortably and to ensure a cash flow which will support your standard of living.

The Guillotine Of French Economic Freedom
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Although the French gave us the word ‘entrepreneur,’ it’s a wonder the term isn’t obsolete in French.

Compute Your Net Worth Once A Year – 2006
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Between 40 and 60 you should increase your net worth by half your annual take home pay every year.

2005 In Review
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2005 was a year which showed the weakness of limiting your asset allocation to US stocks and US bonds.

Eight Steps to Fix Your Broken Credit
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Do whatever it takes. Ask your mother-in-law to hold your credit cards while you are getting out of debt.

Creating A Ladder for Retirement Income
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Like the iron rods in sailing ships, bonds keep your portfolio upright in stormy weather.

Sifting Through Your Own Credit Dirt
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Credit bureaus charge to see your credit score. Save your money.

Learn What Credit Stalkers Know About You
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Beware of bogus credit companies claiming to offer free credit reports in order to gather your personal information.

How to Double Your Retirement
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Every six years you delay saving and investing you cut in half the lifestyle you will have in retirement.

Timing the Market Isn’t All Fun and Games
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Market timing is the attempt to switch a significant portion of your assets between different types of investments in an effort to maximize profits. If this is your investment strategy, good luck, because you’ll need it.

Why is Bob Cratchit So Poor?
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At first glance, this story fills us with pity for the Cratchit family, always struggling to make ends meet. But is that the true story?

Government Controls Endanger Homeland Security
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While it’s hard to muster pity for diminished drug company profits, negligible earnings jeopardized production and supply.

Medicare Part D Deserves an F
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Poor families with children will subsidize millionaire seniors.

Seniors Face Six Month Deadline For Drug Coverage
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Even if you don’t need coverage you can avoid future penalties for as little as $1.87 per month.

Tackling College Costs at the Eleventh Hour
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Don’t borrow or withdraw money from your IRA.

Prepaid Tuition Programs May Be Fool’s Gold
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Prepaid programs are not safe. They just assume a different type of risk.

529 Plans: What’s Important?
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If you are one of the 92% with children under the age of 18 who haven’t started a 529 plan, we encourage you to meet with a fee-only financial advisor soon. You can never start too early, and it’s never too late to do something.

Joshua and the Wall of College Savings
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In the past three years Joshua’s account has grown a whopping 76.6% averaging 22.5% per year.

Start College Savings the Day They Are Born
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If you are not saving for college you are falling behind.

A College Degree is Worth a Million Bucks
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Education matters. He who doesn’t teach his son a trade teaches him to steal.

What Your Advisor Doesn’t Want You to Ask
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Probably the most important question you can ask of anyone offering you financial advice is, “Do you have a legal obligation to act in my best interests?”

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