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Historic Tax Rates

When meeting with clients who have unexpected tax liabilities, usually tied to events they were not monitoring as well as they could, interest, dividends capital gains on brokerage accounts where the brokers have discretion on trading. At time it helps to show them...

Halloween

Looking into the history of Halloween, it figures that it stems from my people and their superstitious beliefs.  Yes, I believe that my Irish relatives still believe in most of the ancient superstitions.  Weddings and funerals have people making strange gestures and...

World’s tallest buildings

I was re-watching the “Titans Who Built America” and in the episode there was a competition as to whom was going to build the world’s tallest building, Charles Chrysler or Pierre DuPont. DuPont won with the Empire State Building, Chrysler lost with e Chrysler...

UFO and the Generational shift

Now the following is not the result of a scientific study.  This is all based upon conversations with Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and a Gen Z representative and his beliefs based on his research and reading and friends. The Gen Z group look at Congress and their...

Survival of the fittest…

It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It’s the one most adaptable to change. – Charles Darwin I read this quote on a webpage and then went on through the article. Later I had to go back and find it.  I read it...

To the moon or not?

There was a poll taken in July 1970, that had 30% of Americans declaring that Apollo 11 was a fake. Apparently, the number got a bit worse when the movie Capricorn One was released, about a fake Mars landing. I have yet to find out how the conspiracy theorists explain...

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