Taxation Driving Relocation

June 21, 2021 The average American will pay $525,037 in taxes over their lifetime, according to a new study by financial technology company Self. For the purposes of the study, income taxes, state and local taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and taxes on automobiles...

Inflation Psychology is Not “Transitory”

June 14, 2021 Inflation is here folks. The latest inflation data show readings of 4.6% on the Consumer Price Index and 6.2% on the Producer Price Index, which are both huge jumps. Everywhere you read, the Federal Reserve said the inflation is transitory, as in it...

The Difficulty of Hiring

June 7, 2021 The April 2021 jobs report may be the most disappointing of all time. Analysts expected the U.S. to add a million new jobs, but it was a paltry 266,000. The mismatch between consensus expectations and reality was the largest since 1998. Worse yet, the...

Fumbling Deeper into Uncertainty

May 24, 2021 There is a confluence of potentially disastrous financial events ahead, and we seem to be barreling head-first into the storm without regard. Let’s start with business taxes. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s call for a minimum global corporate tax...

Stepping On the “Stepped-Up Basis” Rule

May 17, 2021 It’s a bit odd when the party claiming to be for everyone – the Democratic Party – wants to eliminate a law from 1954 that benefits almost all Americans. But here we are. President Biden, along with Democrats in the House and Senate, want to eliminate the...