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Some of you know that we have a vacation place in Vermont, and try to spend time there. When the weather permits, we do outside activities. When it rains, we try to find things to occupy us. Time passes slowly…
Often parents if they are able, give money to their children. Anyone can give up to $14,000 to another person annually without triggering the “gift tax”. If money is subject to gift tax, something like 40% of the eligible amount…
Nancy and I made a couple of trips south this year to break up the winter. We visited South Florida in January and South Carolina in February. We haven’t spent much time in recent years in South Florida. The economics…
On a crisp Sunday in late October, I fished in Valley ForgeNationalHistoricalPark. In the fall, when it rains, sometimes the biggest trout migrate to spawn. Battling against the swollen currents allows them to move upstream over rock ledges and shallow…
Most people have loads of passwords, and are paranoid about cybercrime, malware, phony eastern European credit card charges and other schemes. These are certainly concerns, but let’s get a bit more low-tech. Recently, I was contacted about serving as an…
TABASFUNDING has been providing funding for entrepreneurs to expand or acquire businesses since 2002. We are an alternative to traditional bank financing, which since the recession has become more difficult to obtain for small businesses. Even though we are a…
My son, Ted, owns Rosemont Beverage Center here in Pennsylvania. He wanted to raise some of his prices, and wanted to make giving change easier by setting the sales prices, such that when tax was added, the total amount ended…
My wife Nancy and I have been discussing and debating Facebook’s proposed acquisition of What’sApp. Facebook has agreed to acquire What’sApp, an instant messaging service for $16 billion of mostly stock. Facebook and What’sApp remind me of the wildly popular…
While trying to crystallize a fall newsletter topic, one of my friends Julian Lum suggested that I write about education. I don’t know a whole lot about primary education, other than there are good schools and good teachers as well…
In November, Nancy and I took a “bucket list” trip. Nancy wanted to visit Vietnam. I wasn’t crazy about the idea, but I was curious as to what had changed since I was a teenager and 500,000 US soldiers served…
