Ours is an age where hyperbole has not only become accepted, it is almost universally embraced as a part of American culture, and among the chief advocates of hype is
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StockSplitHistory.com: A Resource for Lawyers
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On April 15 of this year, a company called ETSY went public offering 111.25 million shares of stock at $16 a share. This produced what in stock parlance is called…
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A HOUSING TAKE VIEWED FROM ONE STREET
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We periodically report on macro trends in housing prices because our clients typically have a lot of their wealth invested in their homes. And each time we have a case,…
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ARE BITCOINS AND OTHER CRYPTOCURRENCIES THE NEXT SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS?
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We all know the French proverb; the more things change the more they stay the same. It has a place in the current controversy over the sudden collapse of Bitcoin’s …
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WHAT DO I NEED TO PLAN FOR RETIREMENT ?
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This question is one that financial planners want us to focus upon every day in their quest to increase our savings rates and their assets under management. We have previously …
RECALCULATING RETIREMENT NEEDS
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The Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal on February 19-20 reported on something most of us already knew: Americans are not saving enough for retirement. The proposition is old …
REAL ESTATE AS AN INVESTMENT
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Lawyers are not financial advisers but we do lots of real estate transactions and for most divorce clients, the largest asset in the portfolio is the family home. So in …
THE BERNARD MADOFF INVESTMENT CLUB
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In case you are one of those driven under a rock by the economic news of the past few months, you may have missed the latest news. One of Wall …