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January 2013 – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. Hercules vs. the Hydra. January 29, 2013. By Helping Families Flourish. Originally published in Flourishing. Business investment and in creating new. Then consider that from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2011, the Code of Federal Regulations. Of existing businesses, the launching of new. Enterprises, or the creation of new. Jobs Higher business taxes mean fewer jobs. January 24, 2013. By Helping Families Flourish. And, not that long a...
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June 2014 – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. US Tax Court Changes IRA Rollover Rules. June 23, 2014. By Helping Families Flourish. Flourishing Tax Principle #1. It doesn’t pay to be too clever in your dealings with the Internal Revenue Service. Just ask Alvan and Elisa Bobrow. Despite Alvan’s being a tax lawyer by profession, the U.S. Tax Court ruled that Alvan and Elisa violated the spirit of the 60-day rollover rules outlined in IRS Publication 590. According to IRA guru Ed Slott, Al...
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July 2013 – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. The People of Enterprise. July 11, 2013. July 11, 2013. By Helping Families Flourish. Originally Published in Flourishing. One of Karl’s great, great-grandsons now lives on the farm, and he’s currently remodeling Karl’s second house. Power tools. Beam me up, Grandpa! Toward Economic Literacy and Fairness. July 11, 2013. October 29, 2013. By Helping Families Flourish. Originally Published in Flourishing. Many are the myths of economic journal...
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A Revolution Within a Revolution – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. A Revolution Within a Revolution. July 10, 2014. July 10, 2014. By Helping Families Flourish. Elsewhere in this newsletter I’ve half-argued the case that we’re headed, not for a repeat of the inflation of the 1970’s, but for inflation on steroids. Here is my perspective on all the issues we face, including that one:. US Tax Court Changes IRA Rollover Rules. A Noteable September Birthday. Follow Helping Families Flourish on WordPress.com.
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September 2013 – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. The Real Arab Spring. September 19, 2013. October 29, 2013. By Helping Families Flourish. Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist and author of The Mystery of Capital. He recently published an article on the real Arab Spring the one Geraldo reported on in the July 13 issue of The Spectator. 8230;They were all, like Bouazizi, extralegal entrepreneurs protesting for the right to get on. The right to own and better their lives; to accumula...
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. A Noteable September Birthday. October 7, 2014. October 7, 2014. By Helping Families Flourish. Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1740. I say, let the historians have their battles, if it makes them feel better. The truth is that the American Revolution might not have happened without Samuel Adams, though it required wiser men than he to make it successful; most part...
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March 2013 – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. Washington’s Immigrant Secretary. March 14, 2013. By Helping Families Flourish. For Christmas 2011, our daughter Janelle gave me a copy of Laura Hillenbrand’s most recent book, Unbroken. Was my Christmas gift from our daughter Sara in 2012. How do those girls know so much about their father? By the time Hamilton took office in 1789, the Revolutionary War had been history for six years, the Constitution. Was two years old, and the young natio...
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December 2012 – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. December 17, 2012. By Helping Families Flourish. Originally published in Flourishing. When I was growing up in the 1950’s, retirement as we think of it today was a rarity. According to a poll taken in 1950, most workers aspired to work for as long as they were physically able. Quitting was for the disabled and infirm, and so was Social Security. Neither normal life nor the government offered decades of uninterrupted leisure. Of our children ...
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A Noteable September Birthday – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. A Noteable September Birthday. October 7, 2014. October 7, 2014. By Helping Families Flourish. Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1740. I say, let the historians have their battles, if it makes them feel better. The truth is that the American Revolution might not have happened without Samuel Adams, though it required wiser men than he to make it successful; most part...
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October 2014 – Helping Families Flourish
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Commentary on Issues Affecting Family Well-Being and Happiness. Some New Thoughts on Old Money. October 7, 2014. October 7, 2014. By Helping Families Flourish. 2014 Edition U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth Report (TIWW). However, leaving such a legacy entails the further responsibility of providing an appropriate legal and philosophical framework to guide the future beneficiaries of our life’s work. In the Context of Family Inheritance? One of the most challenging aspects of planning an inheritanc...
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