If you’ve been to a gas pump lately or paid your heating bill, you have a pretty good sense that energy costs more today than it did a year ago. A trip to the grocery story will add to your growing store of anecdotal evidence that prices are rising appreciably. Recently the statistics confirmed your worries: the inflation rate has […]
Month: December 2005
It’s time to make peace with capital gains tax
The average investor hates paying taxes—who doesn’t? And yet, long-term investors get some great tax breaks on both their profits and losses. The tax breaks make investing a better after-tax proposition than working for paid income. And at this time of year, investors should be looking at their capital gains totals because they may want to make some moves before […]