Someone has to be proactive about your child’s retirement and every year you don’t open a retirement account is another year you’re holding back compound interest.
Government has never been known for customer service. But today it is known primarily for being against the very people it is supposed to serve.
Michael Kirsch, a practicing physician and newspaper columnist, laments that there are questions he can never answer satisfactorily for his patients. His questions are central to the public policy debate increasingly being decided by voters and politicians rather than physicians and economists.
Beware of government regulation, especially when a portion of the industry thinks it’ll be good for business.
We are all embarrassingly honest with search engines.
Those who stand by and do nothing are complicit in aiding the loss of freedoms for others.
“We don’t have concentration camps and political dissidents and large numbers being hauled into prison because we don’t need that because we have effectively put prisons inside people’s minds.”
The capital gains tax traps wealth in an investment vehicle requiring special techniques to free the capital without penalty.
Now you may pay one of at least four different capital gains rates. The strategies to deal with capital gains differ for each level.
Learn how a family of four can qualify for a full subsidy with an income of $140,000 a year.
Could this scheme from Mr. Money Mustache change your budgeting strategy?
Unlike the markets, members of the Fed are able to make decisions that are in exactly the wrong direction if they don’t limit themselves with a rules-based system.
With as little as $25 you can begin loaning money to developing world entrepreneurs.
Without taxes, you could leave your job every day at 2:34 p.m
The U.S. dollar was first regulated by the Coinage Act of 1792 and prescribed as 371.25 grains of pure silver. The eagle, worth $10, was 247.5 grains of gold. One cent, worth a hundredth of a dollar, was 24 grains … Read More
Members of the Federal Reserve openly admit it is not a federal agency.
Quantitative easing is a sneaky way to make everyone dealing in U.S. dollars pay off the U.S. debt.
Even as recently as 2007, banks were paying 4% interest. Now you have to go to the hundredth decimal before you find your interest rate.
In its simplest form, the government prints money and uses the newly printed currency to fund government spending.
To comply, most firms must archive and report massive amounts of information. Here are five of the more interesting regulations.
The president’s hope to restrict the plans should actually make owners more interested in creating one.
Which part of the conservative party appeals best to you: promoting the welfare of big business, legislating morality or advocating personal freedom and responsibility?
Social Security withdrawals have enslaved workers to depend on government largess when they could have been independently wealthy.
The economics of the job market are complicated, and an executive order can’t grant America a higher wage.
Willful violations of ERISA legislation carry criminal penalties of up to a year in prison for the plan sponsor and a fine of up to $100,000 for the corporation.
Both authors claimed there were errors in our article all the while agreeing with our assessment of the unemployment numbers.
We actually underreported the portion of jobless Americans. It did not include the people who are represented in the unemployment rate.
Economic freedom enriches society, lifts the poor out of poverty and respects the agency and dignity of human choice.
The stock market can occasionally benefit from the misery index.
Whenever the IRS challenges you, the burden of producing evidence that your claims are true rests entirely with you.
In addition to learning how a viral story can get many of the facts wrong, another more important lesson can be learned from this experience.
Here’s to a better 2014!
This holiday season, remember to cherish the important values of life.
Prior to the Obama administration, only three espionage cases had ever been brought.
“What is remarkable is that is actually acknowledging it is illegal.”
No volume of abuse seems sufficient to rouse public opinion.
If the TSA were a private security firm, they would have been fired by now.
This WHO 2000 Statistical Report was the study used to justify and promote the Affordable Care Act. Here are seven facts about this so-called research lurking behind politicians’ claims that our health care system is in crisis
After I have studied their technical reports and data for over a month and a half, I have finally been able to track their formulas and findings across the dozen sub-studies and their corresponding literature. The methods and statistical formulas used are at times surprising, alarming, or comical.
A change in attitude is needed for the poor to develop a wealth-generating mindset.
A total of 85 different income-tested benefit programs and their expenditure as of 2002.
Your opinions depend on your view of humanity.
Even the negative or inconsequential effects of welfare often fail to convinced some people that a new system of assistance is necessary.
Blaming the 85% with 100% of the wealth for the poverty of the remaining 15% is unreasonable. The two are unrelated.
The partisan deadlock offers us a novel opportunity to reach consensus.
The video “Wealth Inequality in America” is not only misleading, but the research methods of its underlying study are laughable.
The government continued to pay for their website hosting and the domain name licensing but hid all of the data from Internet users.
Requiring employers to deliver government propaganda is genius.
Obnoxious, playboy Tony Stark, more commonly known as Iron Man, is admired by his fictional and real fans alike. Why not real life CEOs?
Fun first. Freedom first. Innovation first. Financial goals first. But not safety. No one says, “That looks safe; I wonder if it is fun.”