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The 1970s Never Ended. Death and taxes: How to ensure your inheritance goes to your children and not the taxman. Discretionary family trusts can be a tool to have non-registered investment income and capital gains taxed to other lower income family members such as children or grandchildren to reduce annual taxation, as well as tax on death.

Death and taxes: How to ensure your inheritance goes to your children and not the taxman

Private corporations can have complicated tax implications, but strategies such as ensuring a corporation qualifies for the lifetime capital gains exemption, implementing an estate freeze, purchasing corporately held life insurance, or post-mortem pipeline transactions — amongst others — can help mitigate income tax payable on death in certain situations. The 6 Biggest Mistakes Ordinary Investors Make. Via visualcapitalist: In many areas of life, we are often our own worst enemies.

The 6 Biggest Mistakes Ordinary Investors Make

The realm of personal finance is no different. What’s the biggest threat to achieving financial independence? Unfortunately, it’s your own brain. 10-Investing Axioms Every Investor Should Learn. By Lance Roberts Martin Tarlie of GMO just recently wrote a great piece on the issue of the current U.S.

10-Investing Axioms Every Investor Should Learn

Stock Market Bubble asking the question of whether or not it has finally burst. 10 retirement lessons from a retired retirement pro. Tax Due: IRS Sends Warning Letter to 10,000 Crypto Speculators. If you are a HODL-er who has never taken a profit, this warning does not apply.

Tax Due: IRS Sends Warning Letter to 10,000 Crypto Speculators

Otherwise, please pay attention: IRS Sending Warning Letters to More Than 10,000 Cryptocurrency Holders. The Internal Revenue Service has begun sending letters to more than 10,000 cryptocurrency holders, warning about the penalties for failing to report income and pay tax on transactions involving virtual currencies. Top Ten Money Mistakes People with Modest Incomes Make. 5 money-saving tips people hate.

European financial market red flags. Severe economic recessions generally have their roots in excessive debt levels and financial market mispricing.

European financial market red flags

Sadly, European financial markets are now showing all too many signs of over-indebtedness and financial market mispricing. Global economic policymakers would be ignoring those early warning signs at their peril. Here’s what to do when you take over a parent’s finances. According to the 2016 census from Statistics Canada, 17 per cent of Canada’s population is over the age of 65.

Here’s what to do when you take over a parent’s finances

Paul Krugman’s Predictions about “Austerity” Aren’t Aging Well. In August 2008, economist Olivier J.

Paul Krugman’s Predictions about “Austerity” Aren’t Aging Well

Blanchard published a paper titled “The State of Macro.” In it, he wrote that For a long while after the explosion of macroeconomics in the 1970s, the field looked like a battlefield. Over time however, largely because facts do not go away, a largely shared vision both of fluctuations and of methodology has emerged. According to The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which published Blanchard’s paper, the US economy was, at that time, already nine months into a recession that would last another nine months, until June 2009.

Save This Chart To Keep Track Of The Yield Curve Interaction With The Economic Cycle. The chart that I want to share with you today is part of a (bigger) research project that I am doing with regard to the various phases in economic cycles and their relation to the (shape of) yield curve.

Save This Chart To Keep Track Of The Yield Curve Interaction With The Economic Cycle

The chart above shows the S&P Index in the main panel. The panel below shows the difference between 10yr and 2yr yields on US treasuries. This 10-2 relationship is generally used to indicate a normal, 10yr > 2yr, or inverted, 10yr < 2yr, shape. Canada's Laffer Curve Lesson: Government Collects Less Revenue from High-Income Earners after Trudeau Tax Hike. Why has Global liquidity crashed again? Deutsche Bank Death Spiral Hits Historic Low. European Banks Follow.

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The same, but different — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate. The MIllennial Portfolio — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate. It’s Millennial day here at Greater Fool!

The MIllennial Portfolio — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate

Free Vespas, face stubble, tats and Urban Outfitter gift cards for everyone. After all, you’re special. You’re also in better financial shape than your wrinkly parents, or so says a new BeeMo report. Economist Sal Guatieri (who’s at least 45) claims Millennials make about 2% more than their parents did at the same age, with young families doing even better – earning about double what the last generation did in 1984. The bad news? Get balanced — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate. From their highs, before The Donald started a trade war and Mr.

Get balanced — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate

Dressup went to India, stock markets have shrunk. BRIC houses — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate. By Guest Blogger Doug Rowat It probably isn’t a surprise to learn that commodity prices remain well below their pre–financial crisis highs. However, what probably is surprising is that commodity prices are actually still almost 15% below their financial-crisis LOWS—this despite many years of robust global economic growth. Transparency — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate. By Guest Blogger Ryan Lewenza At Turner Investments we have four core principles that guide how we look after our clients’ and their hard earned savings.

First, we put as much emphasis on risk as we do returns, and we do so by employing a balanced and globally diversified investment portfolio. Second, we only use low-cost ETFs in building portfolios. Third, we believe good communication is the cornerstone of a successful wealth management practice, with this blog, our live weekly conference call, and constant contact with clients as examples of this. Finally, we believe in low and transparent fees for our clients. The Canadian mutual fund industry has, in this portfolio manager’s opinion, been stacked in favour of the mutual fund companies and the banks that own them, often to the detriment of mutual fund investors. The average equity or balanced mutual fund charges 1.5% to 2.5% annually. Another fee investors can pay is a deferred service charge or DSC.

Ask yourself a simple question. Trust — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate. The advisor — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate. The State of the Canadian Debt Slaves, and How They Compare to the American Debt Slaves. The spark set to ignite Canada’s next big corporate credit shakeout looms as companies pile on too much debt. Infor Financial Group Inc., an independent investment bank, is preparing for a major shakeout in corporate credit as Canadian companies pile on too much debt. Treacherous Times for Bond Funds Ahead. Debt is back but this time its corporate - Golem XIV - Thoughts. Eight Reasons a Financial Crisis is Coming - Mish Talk. 3 Mistakes that Led to the 2008 Financial Crisis (All of Which We're Repeating) It is a decade since the financial crisis, and no one is happy. The Western World’s Most Depressing Chart. It’s Absolutely Clear What Will Cause The Next Global Financial Crisis - Michael Pento.

The cause of the Great Recession circa 2008 was collapsing home prices that led to an insolvent banking system. However, the next economic crisis will result from the bursting of the worldwide bond bubble and its devastating effect on asset prices. Goldman Sachs uncovered an investing strategy that's beaten the stock market for the last 15 years — here are the stocks it says you should be buying and dumping right now.

When hedge funds make moves, investors everywhere pay attention. Their sheer size gives them market-moving prowess, along with the ability to engage in activism that changes how companies are structured. Vanguard's new product has everything an investor needs in one ETF. Graphene: Promise Unfolding or Illusion Revisited? - Mish Talk. Saxo Bank Quarterly Outlook: End of a Cycle Like No Other - Mish Talk. FEE Essential Guide to Crushing It At Your First Job. How the World’s Most Elite Growth Investors Pick Stocks. Golden Fleece Awards for the worst global bonds. Here’s what to do when you take over a parent’s finances.

The Five People Shaping My Worldview by John Mauldin. Ten Principles to Bulletproof Your Portfolio, Part 1 - Investment U. How to Bulletproof Your Portfolio, Part 2 - Investment U. How to Save... How to Invest... and How Much Is Enough - Investment U. 2018 My not so outrageous predictions. May 2017 Investment Rules. Life on the Edge.