Retirement Patchwork

Retirement Patchwork

If you imagine that the U.S. Congress would create a simple, easy-to-understand system for determining when you can make contributions to retirement accounts, and which accounts, and how much, then you would be totally wrong. Nobody knows why the patchwork of ages,...
Crypto Legitimacy?

Crypto Legitimacy?

Most investment managers and financial planners avoid bitcoins as an investment or as a currency, for a few reasons. First, the coins are not backed by any government or asset; they were made up by computers that solve complex algorithms, and therefore have no...
States the Size of Countries

States the Size of Countries

It can sometimes be hard to understand just how large the U.S. economy is compared with the other countries of the world.  You’ve probably read that California, alone, if it were an independent country, would have the world’s fifth largest economy.  But what about the...