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2010-03-10 16:01

How Obama’s Tax Plan Will Affect You

I found a cool article that highlights how President Obama’s tax plan will affect everyone based on their incomes and filing status. It doesn’t cover all the possible income / family situations but you should be able to get a rough estimate by looking at it.

Here’s a look at how the plan impacts two [...]

The Other Side Of The A.I.G. Story

I always thought it was a good idea to hear both sides of a story before casting judgment on a situation. However, when it came to the recent AIG bonus news it was hard to step back and see both sides of the story.  

This morning an AIG employee’s resignation letter was published in the [...]

Layoffs… The Video Game

You know it’s bad out there when video game developers start spending their time creating games about layoffs as opposed to stealing cars and shooting zombies.

Game developer tiltfactor has created a game where the object is to group similar employees together in order to lay them off and save the company money.

You can play Layoff [...]

Advice For Young Investors

Here’s a pretty good article from Business Week that’s geared towards Gen Y Investors (if there are any of them left)…

The article covers a plethora of personal finance topics including emergency funds, insurance and home ownership.

The Importance of Dividends

In the past I’ve posted a couple of times about the importance of dividends.  Here’s an interesting article that illustrates their importance with a great chart.  The chart shows total stock returns by decade and then breaks down the returns between capital gains and dividends.  The data is clear… ignore dividends at your own risk.

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