A variety of tax credits and deductions are going to expire at the end if 2013. Typically there is always some last minute negotiations and it would be perfectly unsurprising to see some of these renewed or extended. But it’s nothing like the massive set if expirations which almost happened last year. Here’s a nice […]

But he does so selectively and carefully, with an eye on exactly when and why such a fund may be better than an index fund or index ETF. Very much worth reading. His thoughts on the matter overlap my own very significantly: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2013/11/12/when-active-funds-make-sense/

It isn’t entirely clear that the debt ceiling is constitutional.  Neither, however, is there a clear remedy for violating it.  Bartlett (and in an op-ed linked to by him, Tribe) discuss some alternatives which may be “more or less unconstitutional” than default — such as either the President or the Treasury choosing to prioritize payments. […]

And amazing and touching column from one of my very favorite journalists. <http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/06/28/the-intelligent-investor-saving-investors-from-themselves&gt; Zweig’s column in the WSJ is must-read stuff every week, and his book Your Money and Your Brain was absolutely fascinating.

Great, short, informative article. I can’t tell you how many times I run into #3 and have to explain the difference between a container and what one puts into a container. And, given where I live and work, how many people have *way* too much tied up in company stock (#5), and often it’s in […]