by Leif Jensen | Aug 17, 2026 | General |
With your investments are you an investor or a trader. If you follow the Warren Buffet school of thought, you are an investor. You buy and hold. A trader buys on bad news, when a stock plummets and sells on good news and grabs the profit. I tend to fall into the...
by Leif Jensen | May 11, 2026 | General |
If a bank account is not verified (unverified) or the information entered is incorrect, a refund will typically be rejected by the receiving financial institution and returned to the sender. The funds do not usually disappear; instead, they enter a “limbo”...
by Leif Jensen | May 4, 2026 | General |
Married filing separately: IRA Deduction Amount and Modified AGI (MAGI) Limits for Traditional and Roth IRA Contributions For 2025, the maximum combined traditional IRA deduction or Roth contribution is $7,000 ($8,000 if age 50 or older). For taxpayers who are covered...
by Leif Jensen | Nov 12, 2025 | General |
It looks like there may be changes in store for college degrees in the future. Attendance has fallen off, mostly due to the ever-increasing tuition costs and the likelihood of not finding a position that comes close to repaying student loans let alone a lifestyle. ...
by Leif Jensen | Oct 27, 2025 | General |
As a follow-up to my last post on Functional illiteracy today, I now address the past. General illiteracy rates in the 1930s In 1930, the US Census reported 4.3% of the population aged 10 and over as illiterate, meaning they could not read and write at all. For those...
by Leif Jensen | Oct 22, 2025 | General |
I was rereading “Pudd’nhead Wilson” by Twain again, I enjoyed it years ago and wanted to reread it. There was a mention of the illiteracy of some of the populace of Dawson’s Landing MO. So, I thought where do we stand as a people today in the US. Functional...
