Meyers Wealth Management

Link: Funny financial-planning “article” at The Onion Well, I thought it was funny, anyway. And it was clearly written by someone who knows enough about financial issues to make up some real gibberish… Read more

Link: Ritholtz on when to fire a mutual fund Note that most of this is a strong argument for using index or index-like funds and etfs in the first place. Read more

Link: Interesting article about economist Alvin Roth Read more

Link: In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish – Graphic – NYTimes.com Very interesting info-graphic at the NYT – total inflation-adjusted returns on the S&P 500 (including reinvested dividends, “average taxes and fees”).  The 20-year median real return was 4.1%.  Nearly 4000 combinations of start/end year in this graphic.  Very cool. Read more

Link: Tax-Overhaul Advocates Study Reagan-Era Reform The only way to lower tax rates without losing revenues will require, as it did for Reagan, broadening the tax base. That is, some things currently untaxed (or, as the case may be, permitted as tax deductions) will need to be taxed. This article includes a list of the Read more

Link: Odds favor index fund investors From Rick Ferri’s blog. Read more