What’s under your mattress?
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 [...]
New Year’s Prediction
History quiz for the new year: What happens after a really strong year in the stock market? Does the market then usually go up, down, or sideways? This is a more important question than many would count it. History repeats itself in many instances because people usually act according to [...]
Tax Filing Delayed
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.
Running out of time, don’t overspend!
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
Is Everything Shut Down?
Successful businesses do the little things. Ron's weekly Examiner column highlights what one company has done to remain successful. I'm sure this company isn't letting the government shutdown affect them. http://bit.ly/19kaaSM
Insure Your Family’s Future
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 [...]
Social Security Raise
3.6% cost of living adjustment beginning in January 2012 The Social Security Administration announced yesterday (10/19/11) that Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 3.6% cost of living adjustment beginning in January 2012. This amounts to a $43 per month raise for the average recipient, bring their average annual benefit to [...]
Buffett’s Son Gives Parenting Advice
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 [...]
Finke: Profit is not a dirty word
Why do we allow companies to have any profit at all? Independence, MO — If a company makes a profit, doesn’t that mean that it charged more than it should have for its products? This fiscal year ending Sept. 30, our federal government will pay out $2.2 trillion just for safety [...]
Finke: Up, Down, Up, Down – Whiplash
Independence, MO It has been almost 24 years since the stock market crash of October 1987, and less than three years since the 2008 autumn crash and the March 2009 bottom. In between there were several other notable drops in the stock market. Whether they take months to develop or [...]