Month: March 2012
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Avoid These Tax Filing Mistakes
We thought we'd take a break from our usual bleeding edge economic commentary to focus on a topic most of us would rather forget this time of year. Taxes. Yes, April 15th is rapidly approaching and with it a plethora of tax errors that could be easily avoided. Here are a few tax filing mistakes…
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Is College the Biggest Financial Scam Going?
Is the American higher education system the biggest fraud to hit town since Bernie Madoff? Honestly, the sheer scope of the institutionalized college financial scam makes ol’ Bernie look like something of amateur. Maybe it’s time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid for a moment and analyze exactly why it has become so ingrained in our…
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AMA 34 – The National Inflation Association
A look at Jason’s Ultimate Investing Equation followed by Daniel and Gerard Adams for The National Inflation Association (NIA) recently featured on Inside Edition and ABC World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, ABC’s Nightline, KTLA News and CNBC. After being ignored by family and friends about the coming stock market…
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The National Debt Versus the Budget Deficit
It has come to our attention that there are some people out there in these slightly tarnished but still pretty darn good United States that are a little fuzzy about the difference between the national debt and budget deficit. Don't be ashamed to admit it. It's to the politicians' advantage that the average hardworking American…
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Foreign Aid – More Trouble Than It's Worth?
America's politicians have been sending billions of dollars overseas annually for so long that it has become a simple matter of course that the practice will continue. Occasionally a fiscal conservative voice in the wilderness is heard decrying the absurd level of foreign aid but mostly we hear a whole bunch of silence. But the…