For months the Obama campaign has said they will raise taxes on those with incomes above $250,000 will cutting the taxes of those making under $200,000.
Apparently, now the tax cuts will go to those making under $150,000 a year.

To pay for everything they have proposed it will eventually have to drop where only those making [...]

The Field Guide for Investors has served a very important purpose in my investing life over the last 15+ years. However, it has gone through times of benign neglect on my part while I was caring for Ann. During that time, it morphed into something that wasn’t “bad” but it wasn’t what I had envisioned [...]

Unless, you believe the economy is going to crash, our government is going to fall and anarchy is going to reign across the land. But, if you believe that, what are you going to do with the proceeds of your liquidation?
If you sell out at this point, you are selling out near the lows. I [...]

Speech recognition technology has come a long way since my first exposure to it in the summer of 1995. Today, even using the free Microsoft engine you can achieve some astounding results. Speech recognition is on its way to becoming ubiquitous and no doubt will be interacting with our computers more and more by voice [...]

On a forum I frequent a poster started a thread about how as an electorate we are confused and how hard and fast labels no longer apply.
At first, I was just going to answer there, but the more I thought about it, I decided to add to my post there and post it as a [...]

unless they are asking for my vote.
I woke up this morning to so many emails from the contact page I had to turn it off temporarily. At first, I thought it interesting my posts on Preparing for an Obama presidency and “President Obama” would stir up such interest. Then I noted in a few of [...]

I monitor the search terms used by new visitors. Knowing what they are looking for when they arrive here is an interesting and often informative exercise.
For example, there are lots of new visitors here who were searching Google, Yahoo, MSN and other engines about how to prepare for an Obama presidency. If the number arriving [...]

I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. The reality is no party matches all of my views. The Libertarian party comes close, but not 100%. In fact, the current political climate is so disgusting and the current crop of candidates so lacking that I’d be content to toss them all out on their [...]

This little phrase of guruspeak is worming its way into normal conversation. I hate to see it. The phrase is used as nothing more than an excuse to not understand the real reason for a failure. They tell their followers they have to “fail forward” to succeed, that each failure is a major step toward [...]