TAX REFUNDS
This morning, tax expert Roni Deutch was a guest on my radio show. First, I need to know what that woman eats for breakfast. She is a bundle of energy on a subject that puts way too many people to sleep. But she made a really important point about tax refunds. If you’re among the Americans who receives one each and every year — and tax refunds have been running, on average, about $2400 for the past few years — or even if you simply got one last year, I want you to think about changing your withholding. Here’s why: When you get a tax refund, that means you’ve been giving the government an interest-free loan. More…
THE DIFFERENCE
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed for a story in Reader’s Digest about The Difference. The reporter wanted my take on the down stock market, the Madoff scandal, and many of the other things in the news. But he seemed to be most interested on the exercises in The Difference — and how they were working not just in theory but in practice. He asked me:
Q. Can a poor person really learn to be as optimistic as a millionaire? More…
MONEY 911
I got a frantic phone call today from Theresa. You may have seen her and her husband Sheldon on Today with me, Carmen Wong Ulrich and David Bach a few weeks ago during a supersized Money 911 segment.
Theresa wrote me originally because she felt like she was going in alone as far as her money was concerned.
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MONEY 911
Wonder why you should stick to your savings strategy even in a scary economy? Watch today’s Money 911 to find out.
As I listened to President Obama in his first address to a joint session of Congress since taking his post just 5 weeks ago, I was listening in two ways. First, for the music. His overall tone. It needed to be strong and upbeat. Enough with the Donny Downer we’ve met since the inaguration. With our votes we bought into change for this nation. No one expects it to be easy, brief, or anything but a multi-year work in progress. But rather than hearing Yes We Can for the past month, the tone of the conversation has changed to Maybe …. Ummm …. I Think So …. We’ll See ….. Enough. Thankfully, President Obama found his voice again tonight: More…
