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• Roth IRAs as a tax shelter
• The unmatched flexibility & other advantages of Roth conversions
• Clients who should have called, but didn't
• Bankers & brokers I’d like to hurt
• 110% tax rates hit home
• Making Work Pay credit and kids
• Dick and Jane do finances
• Bubbles and Swan Dives
• New Workers’ Credit can Result in Underwithholding
• Wealth of Individuals, Part 6: Nothing is Forever
• Auto Donations: Kars 4 Kids
• More of Others’ Thoughts
• The only way to buy a timeshare
• Wealth part 5: when is 2% a fabulous return?
• CA puts the screw to savers and entrepreneurs
• My favorite blogs and Internet sites
• The economy, and history repeats itself
• Tax savings isn’t always worth the costs
• Other new tax laws, including some serious warnings
• CA voters get schizophrenic on out-of-control spending
• Problems and opportunities with refinancing
• Thoughts on the economic mess
• Assessing your tolerance to risk
• The alchemy of mutual fund profits
• Inherited assets can be mined for losses
• Contribution histories for Roth IRAs
• FoRGeD errors
The Wealth of Individuals - Part 3
• Wealth grows in spurts
• Many, including Social Security recipients, should consider Roth conversions
• Preventing future economic meltdowns
...Wealth and Crisis...
The Wealth of Individuals - Part 2
• How is wealth created?
• Socialism + crony capitalism = economic meltdown
• Dear Barack
• Dear John
The Medical Conundrum
• The importance of flexibilty
• Regulation is the problem; freedom is the cure
• Ranking the U.S. 37th in the world is political propoganda
• Alcoholics get away with murder. How?
• Are Health Savings Accounts better than IRAs?
• Elder Abuse and other financial thuggery
• Are reverse mortgages right for you?
Updates on contributions to retirement plans and health savings accounts
• Real estate succumbs to perfect storm
• Simplified recordkeeping simplified
• Real tax brackets for low income earners
• High-income earner Roth strategy
• Retiree-IRA-charity strategy
• Low-income IRA strategy
• How to take title to real estate
• Lower tax rates increase tax collections
• Prop. 82 will fail in its objectives and exacerbate
• California’s financial problems
• Towards a better understanding of Roth IRAs
• It’s deductible and saves zero tax. Huh?
• Real estate on the precipice
• How the new Bankruptcy law could affect all of us
• The Roth 401(k) and you
• Congressman notices the AMT
• Tax Myth of the Month: IRA confusion
• Misleading financial advertising
• Simplify your recordkeeping
• A cure for the high cost of medical care
• California government needs tough love
• Understanding the Alternative Minimum Tax
• Additional depreciation for some
• Covert tax brackets: false advertising
• Letting inflation do the work of Congress
• Letters to Doug: does collective social mood determine events?
