by Don Gould Last week in Part One of this two-part series, I focused on how to increase the tax benefit of your charitable donations, enabling you to give more to charity at the same net cost. In this Part Two, I will review three other strategies for tax-smart...
by Don Gould “Give us your clunker and save on taxes!” “Call your PBS station right now and make a tax-deductible donation to support public television!” By now, it has been well pounded into our brains that donations to qualified charities are tax-deductible in the...
Inflation Returns, But for How Long? Inflation is back. You can see it at the grocery store, in restaurants, wages, housing costs, gasoline, and many other places. Inflation also manifests in a more subtle way—getting less for what you pay. Have you noticed that the...
by The Gould Asset Management Team Note: This post is an excerpt from Gould Asset Management’s Economic and Market Review for the Third Quarter of 2021. The excerpt is posted here for the benefit of our blog subscribers. US Expansion Robust, Delta Variant Likely...
Many thanks to those who joined us Monday, September 20th, 2021 for Don Gould’s live webinar on upcoming potential tax law changes and how to prepare. Don touched upon quite a few areas where tax changes are currently being proposed. These included: Corporate...
by Don Gould From an early age we are admonished, “don’t keep all your eggs in one basket,” especially where investments are concerned. A diversified investment portfolio holds many assets rather than just one or a few, greatly reducing the chances that all your eggs...
A Robust and Bumpy Rebound The US economy continued its sharp rebound last quarter as the pandemic receded. June payrolls alone showed a nearly one million gain in the number employed, meaning the economy has recovered about three-fourths of the jobs lost in the...
by The Gould Asset Management Team Note: This post is an excerpt from Gould Asset Management’s Economic and Market Review for the Second Quarter of 2021. The excerpt is posted here for the benefit of our blog subscribers. Stocks Set New Highs as Vaccination Rates...
by Don Gould In this two-part article, I suggest that if you could only watch one economic indicator, it should be the interest rate on the 10-year US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS for short. The TIPS bond pays a return that is indexed to inflation....
by Don Gould The media bombards us daily with economic and financial statistics. Housing starts were up. Jobless claims were down. Consumer confidence is fluctuating. The purchasing managers index was flat. And so on. It’s enough to make your head spin. But there is a...
