Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that makes significant changes to the laws governing the tax-advantaged accounts that most Americans rely on to supplement Social Security during their retirement. The President signed it into law on December 20. (We note that when the House passed the bill back in Read more…
Market Summary We begin by wishing everyone a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2019. The U.S. stock market just concluded the worst week near the Christmas holidays in many years, and some stock market participants have been panicking. Then the economic news arrived yesterday morning. Mastercard [NYSE: MA] announced that holiday Read more…
Market Summary The U.S. Market and Economy As we have been mentioning frequently in these pages, we continue to have a bullish view of the U.S. economy. More positive economic data surface each week. This week we learned that small business optimism in the U.S. is at the highest level Read more…
Trump, Clinton Plans Diverge For Retirees As the U.S. presidential election nears, we are doing a series of reports on the differences and agreements of the major parties on various economic and financial topics. Last week, we noted one area where the major-party candidates are in agreement: trade. In Read more…
Retirement: An Economic Disaster and a Health Catastrophe? A letter to Financial Times columnist Michael Skapinker last week brought our attention to a personality we hadn’t heard of, but who is well-known in Europe. Dr. Charles Eugster is a 96-year-old British resident of Switzerland who took Skapinker to task for Read more…
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