When it comes to taxes, plenty of people adhere to Ellen DeGeneres’ mantra: “Procrastinate now. Don’t put it off.” Of course some of us are better at that than others–like the folks in San Francisco.
Tax-prep software giant TurboTax released its eighth annual list of top procrastinating cities last week, and the city by the bay [...]
by Jeanne Fleming, Ph.D. and Leonard Schwarz
Question: Two years ago my father left a large inheritance to my brother’s young girls - that is, to his grandchildren. Recently my brother used all of it, plus some of his own money, to buy a vacation home for his family (he says there are good deals [...]
by JEANNE FLEMING, PH.D. and LEONARD SCHWARZ
Question: A good friend is investing $25,000 in an alternative-energy deal that looks very promising. He says he can arrange for me to get into it, but in exchange he wants 10% of whatever profit I make. I think he’s being incredibly greedy, but he says that he deserves [...]
The latest news on unemployment was as grim as expected: More than 5 million people have lost their jobs since the beginning of 2008 and the unemployment rate surged to 8.5% in March, the highest in 25 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
It may seem as if no place in the U.S. is [...]
When Archie and Edith sang “mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again” at the start of every episode of All in the Family, it was supposed to be a joke: no one but a reactionary old coot would feel actual nostalgia for the president who turned a stock market crash into the Great [...]
