by lindapowell | Feb 13, 2018 | Articles, In The News
After 20 months of relative calm, take this volatility in stride Are you upset by what is happening on Wall Street? It may help to see this pullback within a big-picture context. Corrections have become so rare as of late that when one occurs, emotion threatens to...
by lindapowell | Feb 6, 2018 | Articles, Economic Updates
February 2018 THE MONTH IN BRIEF Bulls took charge of Wall Street as 2018 began: the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 5.79% in the first month of the year, even with a mild selloff on the verge of February. Foreign equity benchmarks largely advanced as well....
by lindapowell | Jan 30, 2018 | Articles, did you know
A recent poll of pre-retirees suggests that truth risks being ignored. Steady income or a lump sum? Last year, financial services firm TIAA asked working Americans: if you could choose between a lump sum of $500,000 or a monthly income of $2,700 at retirement, which...
by lindapowell | Jan 17, 2018 | Articles, did you know, In The News
What standbys did tax reforms eliminate? Are the days of itemizing over? Not quite, but now that H.R. 1 (popularly called the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act) is the law, all kinds of itemized federal tax deductions have vanished. Early drafts of H.R. 1 left only two itemized...
by lindapowell | Jan 16, 2018 | Articles, Kristin's Chronicles
This is the time of year the pundits tell us what’s coming for the year ahead, what styles will be in, where the economy is headed, what the hit summer movie will be. I claim no ability to see what’s coming tomorrow. But it’s fun to take stock of where we are and...
