It’s that time of year again! The Tax Foundation just released their annual summary of the latest federal income tax data broken down by income percentile. Read more here. Here are some of the highlights: In 2013, 138.3 million taxpayers reported earning $9.03 trillion in adjusted gross income and paid $1.23 trillion in income taxes. […]
Graphic Video: The Great Replacement
RIP Mr. and Mrs. Flutie
How sad and yet how perfect. “It is with a heavy heart that I am making this statement,” Flutie wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday. “This morning my family experienced the tragic loss of my father, Dick and mother, Joan. My Dad had been ill and died of a heart attack in the hospital and my Mom, less […]
EMP Attack: When the Lights go Out
Ted Koppel talks about his new book Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, here:
Stock Market Beauty Contest: Part II
You know from Part I that this stock market is a beauty contest. Five companies account for two-thirds of the returns year-to-date for the S&P 500 Index. They are: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. It has been my experience that investors make the grave mistake of confusing index investing with diversification. Owning the S&P 500 […]
France Bombs ISIS in Raqqa
France has taken immediate retaliatory action against ISIS by bombing locations in the terrorist organization’s capital, Raqqa. CNN reports: French fighter jets bombed a series of ISIS sites in Raqqa, Syria, on Sunday in what officials described as a major bombardment. The airstrikes came two days after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris. ISIS […]
Neocon Hour of Power
“Since WWII, there have been five elected GOP presidents: Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. Only Bush II could be called a compulsive interventionist,” writes Pat Buchanan. In the last debate, sounding like Bush II, Marco Rubio said, “There are radical jihadists in the Middle East beheading people and crucifying Christians. The Chinese […]
Investing Lessons From my Father’s Father
Do you remember your first job? I forget what my father’s first job was, but I know he started working at a very young age scooping ice cream, pumping gas, and later selling Fuller Brushes. In addition to that, he was responsible for collecting rent from a number of his father’s rental properties in New […]
Rand Paul: Solid in 4th Debate
My favorite quote from the 4th debate was from Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul: “You can be strong without being involved in every civil war around the world,” Paul said. “You’re asking for a no-fly zone in an area where Russia already flies at invitation of Iraq. Do you realize that what you’re saying is that […]
The Fed has Sat on Its Hands
In the November issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report, Dick Young writes: The Fed has sat on its hands throughout the duration of the current business cycle recovery from the financial crisis. In my five decades in the investment industry, there has not been a period where the Fed has refused to increase rates […]
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