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It looks like Joe Biden’s landmark legislation is running into some challenges in Congress. Joe Manchin, one of the most powerful men in Congress right now, has pushed back on the $3.5 trillion bill and counter-offered with a more narrow $1.5…

The increase on taxes on the rich with the Human Infrastructure plan is rumored to cost the average American nothing, but that’s not quite the full story. The long-term implications of the cost of the plan say differently. Fiscal insanity has been a…

Dr. Larry Kotlikoff is the foremost expert in the world on fiscal gap accounting and has done a great job transforming how we should be thinking about a nation’s debt. Dr. Kotlikoff recently stated during an interview that most retirement planning…

Most of the changes of the two infrastructure bills working their way through Congress right now will mainly affect high-income earners, but the details may change as time goes on. There are seven major takeaways from the recent house tax bill. The…

Whether you like to talk about politics or not, the things that are happening in Congress right now will affect your retirement. All the unmitigated spending during the Covid pandemic is catching up with the US. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin…

If Joe Biden can’t get his tax legislation through before midterm elections, it’s unlikely he will be able to pass it at all. The situation in Afghanistan has lost Biden approval points in polls across the nation and since the midterm elections…

In August 2016, the University of Michigan began a trend by offering their football coach a split-dollar life insurance arrangement as an alternative to deferred compensation. Other football coaches in different schools have similar arrangements. The…

Is it possible for the tax proposals moving their way through Congress to be retroactive for 2021? Biden has proposed raising the business tax from 21% to 28%, and when you add in the State corporate income tax of 7% that will put the US near the top…

Legislative hijinks are happening in Congress right now and they are going to have an impact on the timing of a potential tax increase coming down the road. The Senate has struggled for a while now to come to an agreement on a $1 trillion…

A new report says that retirees who convert their savings into guaranteed lifetime annuities effectively double the amount they are willing to spend each year on themselves and their families. This indicates that retirees holding more of their wealth…