Louis Pasteur, the late French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of Germ theory of disease, and inventor of the process of Pasteurization noted “chance favors only the prepared mind.” By this, he probably meant that your success rate will improve if you mentally focus on the task at hand and prepare to be enlightened by the results. While […]
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I was talking with a neighbor this past week about Facebook and we were discussing whether it was time to buy its stock (or not)…since neither of us “got in” on the IPO—Initial Public Offering this past May. Here’s a refresher: Facebook (FB) IPO’d at $42/share and immediately shot up as high as $45/share. And
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$5,120,000.00!!! That’s how much someone can give away this year and not be on the hook for gift taxes. Why this exact amount? Because congress decided to put an “estate tax patch” good through the end of 2012 for the existing estate tax code. Additionally, any amount exceeding that limit will ‘only’ be taxed at
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Yes, I passed!! By the way, the national pass rate of those who took the exam this past March was only 59%. And those are people who studied and took courses to pass the exam. If you’ve ever taken a certification exam, you can relate to the stress and anticipation waiting those few seconds for
Certified Financial Planner…it’s official!! Read More »
