Founder’s Day: Celebrating George Marotta (Part 3)
My grandfather turns 97 this year. While not often celebrated or recorded in history, my grandfather played an important supporting role to many important events.
My grandfather turns 97 this year. While not often celebrated or recorded in history, my grandfather played an important supporting role to many important events.
How do our current tax brackets compare to historical ones? Are our taxes higher than the past? When was the most expensive time period for the U.S. income tax?
Cyber security gravitates toward the low-hanging fruit of novice users. Even taking a few steps can greatly protect your accounts.
Graduate yourself from a childish mindset to that of an adult.
Hong Kong has always been an anomaly: a tiny, extremely free country with an expiration date in 2047.
Nothing changes during a Bear Market when it comes to where you should save and invest.
During a down market like this one, now is your chance both to harvest capital losses as they occur and rebalance your portfolio.
Although this is the least common financial shock studied, it is one of the most difficult because at its core it is a problem money cannot solve.
Investment Philosophy Retirement Planning Tax Planning College Planning Budgeting Various Topics
Facebook added the “Legacy Contact” feature that allows you to designate a Facebook Friend of yours who you would like to gain access to your Facebook page after you have passed away.
This is a complete list of the budgets and purposes of the federal agencies that begin with the letter A.
The domestic spying of the executive branch deserves our outrage. Efforts like “Citizenfour” that keep the issue in the public eye deserve our support.
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.
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.”
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.
Which part of the conservative party appeals best to you: promoting the welfare of big business, legislating morality or advocating personal freedom and responsibility?
How do you prepare for the end of the world?
A total of 85 different income-tested benefit programs and their expenditure as of 2002.
“The telephony, the bulk collection of America’s telephony metadata is contrary to the entire intent of Congress in enacting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It violates the statutory provisions of FISA. And it is unconstitutional.”
Thanks to the public record, pieces of otherwise random information can be used to precisely identify an individual. Find out what some of the most common data leaks are in your life.
If there isn’t a strong enough outcry, these practices will become institutionalized.
Here are the 2008 party platforms on the environment
Here are thirty reasons Obama doesn’t deserve a second term.
The hypocrisy of candidates who pretend to be generous with other people’s money while purposefully characterizing those who are actually generous destructively is an issue worthy of consideration when you vote.
My youthful utopian idealism gave way slowly to my present midlife perspective. My life’s philosophical and experiential odyssey overturned many of my presuppositions. I learned over time that many of society’s assumptions are provably false. But it took courage to integrate this radical reevaluation of life.
Ronald Regan’s speeches, including “A Time for Choosing” (1964) are worth watching.
Perhaps dire predictions are correct and we are headed to Armageddon. If you want liquid assets in such a catastrophic situation, try buying cases of Jack Daniels. It is cheaper, keeps just as well and will fetch more in trading value.
Sometimes we make the mistake of deliberately budgeting the impossible. If you purposefully set the required spending in one category too high, you won’t be able to trim other categories to bring your overall spending into harmony.
You are guarding against deadweight loss when the recipient can exchange the gift or return it for cash.
Both mindless eating and mindless spending rely on our subconscious need to follow scripts to pace our consumption. Community plays a huge role in regulating our financial destiny–either a path of savings that builds real wealth or a path of spending that leads to impoverishment.
Regulation and centralized planning have caused financial instability and failing institutions. If this is the root cause, then many of the proposed solutions will only make matters worse.
Belle measures Ebenezer’s love for her by what he spends on her directly. Investments count for nothing.
French labor laws have made doing business in France with French employees very unattractive.
We all must become volunteers in fight against terrorism in order to maintain the new world order.