Archive for April, 2009
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
I was up in NY for a long weekend with my parents and other relatives, and came back to VA today. On the way back I stopped at a coin shop we had passed several times, and got a chance to look inside.
The owner was buying a collection of coins ...
Posted in Coins | 3 Comments »
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
One of my relatives would give away a lot of money -- and give away a lot of her labor without pay. This isn't a bad thing by itself, but one of the motivations she had was that she was afraid of being put into a higher tax bracket. It ...
Posted in Personal Finance, Taxes | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Wow, this sure is a breath of fresh air. Congress has begun to move away from bailout mode toward balanced-books mode.
Representative Jared Solmssen (Dem., Minn.) authored the Federal Debt Reduction Act of 2009, which has as its heart the ambitious goal of shaving nearly $1 trillion off of the $11 ...
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