Tag: Ronald Reagan

Job Lock: It’s Real, and Obamacare Reduces It a Lot

How many people do you know who truly love their work? My hunch is that your answer to that question is, at most, something in the neighborhood of “oh, maybe a few.” And of those few, how many do you think would continue in their work if they had some […]

The Decades Leading up to Retirement: Where Should You Be?

Recently I’ve had several conversations with 30-somethings looking to me for help in improving their overall financial health. Happy feelings ensued. It’s every financial planners’ delight, I say to them, to see people your age smart enough to be getting into action on improving their overall financial health with the help of […]

Post-Election Financial Health Takeaways

Elections have consequences — sometimes quickly and obviously, sometimes over the long-run, and sometimes not so much. Last week’s election stands a good chance of being consequential. It stands a good chance of being quickly and obviously consequential due to the oncoming rush of the fiscal cliff. And it has […]

Lennon’s Loss Looms Large

Lennon’s loss, felt more strongly today because this is his 70th birthday, still haunts. Lennon was murdered (here the dreaded passive voice is the right one to use . . . ) just about a month after Reagan defeated Carter for the presidency. What would 30 years of Lennon’s music […]

Tax code invisibility / tax code simplification / tax code fairness

We all agree that the tax code is too complex and should be simplified. But some complexity is warranted in the name of fairness.