by Leif Jensen | Apr 20, 2022 | Investing, Money Management, Rant |
One client this tax season was asking me what I thought the economy was going to do in the near term, this gentleman is slightly older than me. I started by reviewing that 2021 was a gangbuster year, that most of my accounts had hit their highs and that I was pleased...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 19, 2022 | Rant |
A hundred years ago when I went to college, I told my father I was majoring in accounting. He told me that he hoped I liked “shoe stores”. The only other person whom he knew that ever majored in accounting worked as a manager of a shoe store. Apparently, he knew no...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 12, 2022 | Rant, Taxes |
While at this writing the Biden tax proposal hasn’t been voted on but has been described to include very scary items. First off this is supposed to only “tax” the uber wealthy. But the tax code itself was to do the same thing in the beginning. Tax a very small...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 11, 2022 | Rant |
I was surprised when I investigated who were the movie monster screen chain in the world. I expected most to be in China owned and operated, based purely on population. But number one is AMC with 11,041 screens, started in Kansas City Number two is Cineworld, based...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 6, 2022 | Rant |
In a recent Gallup poll, they tracked U.S. adults’ movie attendance using this question periodically between 1988 and 1995 and then more regularly from 2001 through 2007. The latest reading is from a Dec. 1-16 Gallup poll, the first since 2007, and it shows a...
by Leif Jensen | Apr 5, 2022 | Rant |
I was talking to a client the other day about movies and they were somewhat resentful that the AMC theaters were mostly China owned. I thought he was wrong put didn’t say anything. I thought I had read something different but didn’t remember the details. China’s...
