Harvard University announced last week that Kenneth Griffin, a 1989 graduate, is giving $150 million primarily to support financial aid for its undergraduates. This is part of a $6.5 billion capital campaign started in 2013 to make a Harvard education affordable for all entering students, but especially those from low [...]
In the good old days, your emergency money could earn at least 3 or 4 percent in a savings account or a short term certificate of deposit. This was often enough to help keep up with inflation. Now that the Fed has used its zero interest rate strategy to help [...]
The IRS released a statement yesterday that they will not begin process tax returns until January 31st. According to a statement, the extension "will allow the IRS adequate time to program and test its tax processing systems." This does not affect the April 15 filing deadline. For more, click http://1.usa.gov/1beZwIo.
The countdown to Christmas is almost in the single digits. See Ron's advice to keep this time of the year from following you into the new year! http://bit.ly/196y856
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month. Ron's latest article in The Examiner discusses a topic too many don't pay enough attention to. "It is often said that love is really spelled t-i-m-e. That is a big part of what having life insurance means to me personally. If I have the [...]
Learned a lot by not having his father spoil him. Peter Buffett, Warren Buffett's son, says he learned a lot by not having his famed philanthropist father spoil him, "I learned more in difficult times about myself and my resiliency than I ever would have if I’d had a pile [...]
