…And How The Boom On Wall Street Affects Your Whole Life Insurance Dividend The stock market has reached historic heights and the Shiller price-to-earnings for the S & P 500 is “currently 34 times compared to the median level of around 16 times.”[i]  Meanwhile, the “US market cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio is the highest among …

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There is a lot of noise being made surrounding what and what isn’t going to happen to your taxes under the GOP Tax Bill.  But one thing is for sure, taxes won’t be going away, because as Benjamin Franklin noted years ago, death and taxes are two things you can always rely on. But concerning …

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Editor Walter Updegrave’s article, entitled Recoup Your Bear Losses?, appeared in CNNMoney.com July 8, 2009. In it he stated that all we needed to do was “keep investing in stocks,” earn “a real rate of 12.8% a year until 2017,” and we’d be right back where we were before the Great Recession cleaned out nearly …

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2017 has proven to be a winner for US stocks, with a posting of the best run in the past 25 years. In fact, most everyone in the stock market is happy about the huge upturn that has taken place.  “After the first quarter alone the Dow had gained nearly 5% with the Nasdaq gaining …

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That is, of course, if you believe CNN Money’s spin on the new jobs data. Here’s the way CNN spun this one.  “Trump is wrong”[i] because Trump says Americans are earning $4,000 less than they were earning in 2000, on average.  Obviously this little tidbit is true or Trump would have been called out on …

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“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Everyone said it sounded like a splendid idea when this quote was read aloud in my high school political science class.  Many thought it was a quote by Jesus Christ himself.  Yet the same person who wrote that statement also penned these words,  …

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The first week of 2016 was the worst opening week for the US Stock market in history. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off by 6.2% crushing its historical drop of 5.6% in 1978. And the S&P 500 wasn’t any better giving up 21 points or 6% for the week!  That drop blew through the …

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