Welcome to Straight Talk #5. We appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly commentary. Today’s comments concern risk. There is risk in everything we do. Crossing the street, driving our car, doing business and so forth. Everyone’s tolerance for risk is different. Some aren’t willing to take much risk at all. Others leap out of perfectly…
Welcome Everyone to Straight Talk and we hope you had a pleasant Thanksgiving holiday. We appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly commentary. In a recent radio program on which I was a guest, we started off with the question of the purpose of taxes. The simple answer of course is to raise revenue or at…
Welcome to Straight Talk. We appreciate your enjoyment of our weekly commentary and we wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving. Eat well, be healthy and enjoy family and friends. For me, it just feels like a good holiday season in spite of all that goes on in the world. For our family our daughter…
Welcome to Straight Talk Edition 2. Today I want to focus on Estate Taxes and Trusts. Back when President Bush was in office he enacted tax laws with a 10 year time window. Those ten years have passed and Congress extended the laws for 2 years. In the estate tax area, beginning January 1, 2013,…
