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Although the headlines stated that the Supreme Court ruling upholding the recent Health Care act requires everyone to purchase health insurance that is not 100% true…

Although a great deal of the 2013 tax landscape may change, there is one area of the tax code that will probably not change, at least not before January 1, 2013 and that is the Medicare Contribution Tax…

For those who watch the investment markets, the first half of 2012 was a strange and somewhat harrowing experience…

The past year will be remembered for two remarkable social media initial public offerings: LinkedIn on May 19, 2011 and Facebook on May 19, 2012. Although the month and day were the same, the two offerings went very differently…

Here’s a trivia question to startle your friends with. According to International Monetary Fund statistics, what country has the highest government debt levels, compared with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in the world?…

By most objective measures, the world is a better place to live in today than it was in, say, the 1950s. 60 years ago most of the world’s population was starving and nuclear testing was done in the open air exposing millions to radiation needlessly…

Spanish leaders recently requested economic assistance from the European Union’s central bank (ECB), a few days after the Fitch Ratings service dropped the debt rating on Spanish government bonds to BBB status (just above junk status)…

By just about any measure, May was an awful month for investment performance, which is another way of saying that the past 31 days have made stock indices 5% to 10% more affordable than they were in April…