Tax Reform
Learn about the latest tax reform developments and their potential impact on your clients' income, portfolios and financial plans more broadly.
Obama Proposes to Extend Bush Tax Cuts Excluding Top Earners
By Melanie WaddellPlan would be for one year and exclude those families earning more than $250,000; GOP opposed, wants to extend cuts for all.
June 04, 2012
If Walker Wins, What Are the Lessons? (National Review)What can be learned if Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not recalled?
May 31, 2012
WASHINGTON—While a huge amount of airtime, printers ink and digital media coverage will be spent on events in Washington, D.C. this year, there are only three things that the insurance professional should focus on.
May 30, 2012
Eurozone Faces 'Financial Disintegration' Unless It Acts Again, Warns Commission (The Guardian)The commissions recommendations, which will be put to a summit of EU leaders in Brussels at the end of June, outline a giant leap in fiscal and economic union that could require a new charter.
May 22, 2012
The Greek Run (The Economist)As Greece's exit from the euro zone looks more inevitable, runs on banks are more likely, too.
April 26, 2012
Health Care Reform Isn’t Entitlement Reform (Reason.com)Medicare, the nation's biggest health entitlement could be insolvent as soon as 2016, according to the program's trustees.
April 26, 2012
Health Care Reform Isn’t Entitlement Reform (Reason.com)Medicare, the nation's biggest health entitlement could be insolvent as soon as 2016, according to the program's trustees.
April 24, 2012
U.S. in ‘Self-Sustaining Recovery,’ but Tax Uncertainty Will Linger: ValliereGreg Valliere, chief strategist at Potomac Research Group, says the U.S. is experiencing a self-sustaining recovery, mediocre at best.