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By now, it is widely recognized that the massive pandemic relief bills enacted by both the Trump and Biden administrations have added immensely to the federal budget deficit.

You might remember dire warnings some years ago about global overpopulation and the threat of overcrowding in the US. So how fast, exactly, is our population growing?

She was born like a flourish of color against the dismal grey milieu of the Great Depression, the grace of her presence like a divine promise that our country might soon emerge from its hard times with renewed life and vigor.  Fair haired with deep blue eyes and a disposition as gentle and sweet as her countenance, the little girl came into the world just as she left it seventy years later—an angel.  If love is patient and kind, and if love bears all things with grace and equanimity, then Irene Elizabeth Anne Wittig was love.

Perhaps an unanticipated effect of the COVID-19 pandemic is a major increase in the number of persons seeking admission to the medical and legal professions.

One of the first so-called “anomalies” hypothesized by financial researchers was the size premium, which posits that small-capitalization equities tend to outperform large-capitalization equities over time.

Readers of a certain age may remember the song about the boll weevil, recorded by blues and folk artist Leadbelly in the 1930s and made famous by Brook Benton in the early 1960s. Boll weevils feed on cotton buds, and a widespread infestation in the American South led to economic devastation in the 1920s and 1930s.

As many investors learned during the tumultuous year of 2020, reliable financial and market advice has never been more valuable.

In 1965, an interesting study appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Two researchers, Caroline Preston and Stanley Harris, surveyed 50 drivers and asked them to rate themselves for safety-consciousness and general driving ability, focusing particularly on their last time behind the wheel.

Here’s an uncomfortable truth you need to accept: Someday—hopefully in the very distant future—you are going to die.

With the expansion of the standard personal deduction and the related reduction in applicability of other itemized deductions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), many taxpayers are re-examining their charitable gifting strategies.