Tough break: A stiff-arm fall
Football players hit the ground hard, time after time, but they rarely break their arms. Yet, when the average person falls just once, it’s not unusual…
Month: February 2020
Shut the file drawer
If you work with filing cabinets, it has probably happened to you. You snag yourself, or hit your knee on a file cabinet drawer left open. Or how about…
More people working; More flu
The better the economy, the more people working. The more people working, the more flu. With the unemployment rate at 50 year lows, more people are out in…
Comparison: 401(k) versus typical savings account
A savings account is the safest place to put money. It’s also good for money that you expect to spend within a year or so. But the rate of return is…
Act pushes businesses to enroll employees in retirement plans
If the galloping stock market isn’t enough incentive to get into a 401(k) retirement plan, President Trump’s Secure Act, which went into effect Jan. 1,…
2019 taxes will feature expanded child credit
The expanded Child Tax Credit, signed into law in 2017, remains for the 2019 tax year. The credit was part of President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The…
Do you actually need to pay someone to do your taxes?
Those forms look daunting. And those crazy tax words seem intimidating. But, the fact is, 100 million workers probably don’t really need a tax person to…
Use 529 plan to pay down college loans
The federal government has expanded the use of the 529 college savings plan to pay down college loans up to $10,000. Part of the Secure Act, signed in…
Entrepreneur: John Paul DeJoria — Been There, Done That. And Now, Billions Shared
As a kid growing up in downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, John Paul DeJoria didn’t really think times were tough. The second son of an Italian immigrant…
Business Book Review The Tracer of Investor Behavior
In 1982, Jim Simons, a former code-breaker for the U.S. government and a brilliant mathematician, founded Renaissance Technologies. In decades since,…