© 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP Netflix is the new Tesla. On Wall Street, that is. Netflix and Tesla are in totally different businesses. But they have a couple of things in common on Wall Street. One of them is that they are both “hot” stocks. This means that they have a strong following among investors
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Too many people think of investing when they think of retirement planning. It distracts them from the issues that should be the focus of most of their time and energy. When people first learn what I do, most of them soon ask me questions about investing and the markets. It doesn’t seem to matter what
Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses whether Social Security benefits can increase even without continued income, filing a restricted application, potential ramifications of filing at 62 for divorced spousal benefits, benefit eligibility after remarriage and
IRS-CI Chief Don Fort speaks during an IRS Criminal Investigation 100th year anniversary event. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP One hundred years ago, six United States Post Office Inspectors were transferred to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (now Internal Revenue Service) to become the first special agents in charge of a new crime
According to the second law of thermodynamics, a natural process always progresses to entropy or chaos. For the sake of argument, let’s look at the increasingly complex U.S. tax code. Even with laws aimed to simplify the system, such as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), simplification in one area — such as the