The Case for Health Savings Accounts

August 16, 2021 According to Fidelity, a 65-year-old, opposite-gendered couple retiring this year can expect to spend $300,000 in healthcare and medical expenses throughout retirement. For single retirees, it’s $157,000 for women and $143,000 for men. That’s a lot of...

Is this Inflation Really Temporary?

August 9, 2021 The government keeps telling us the inflation is “transitory,” or temporary. But is it? The Commerce Department reported the consumer price index (CPI) jumped to an annualized rate of 5.4% in June, the highest level since August 2008. Core CPI, which...

The Assault on Wealth Continues

August 2, 2021 The quest to tax private wealth experienced two recent victories. First, at the G7 meeting in England, world leaders (including President Biden) endorsed the creation of a new worldwide tax regime, starting with a 15% global minimum tax on all...

Unemployment Benefit Poker

July 26, 2021 A group of 21 state governors, all Republicans, have decided to do something about labor woes. This group, which could grow larger, decided to stop participating in the federal government supplemental Unemployment Benefits Program, which provides an...

Three Steps to Inflation

July 19, 2021 There’s a threat coming for your portfolio – inflation. Inflation hampers those who live on savings and generate income from wealth. If you planned to earn a certain amount of money per year from investments, that same amount is now worth less. For...

The Modernity of Money

July 12, 2021 Maybe you’ve heard of modern monetary theory. Basically, it argues that developed nations with their own sovereign currencies should be able to print as much money as they want, and federal deficits, however large, should not matter. In other words, if...

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