Tax Reform
Learn about the latest tax reform developments and their potential impact on your clients' income, portfolios and financial plans more broadly.
Next Up in Tax Reform Debate: Capital Gains
By Melanie WaddellSenate Finance Chairman Max Baucus and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp plan to hold a joint hearing Thursday to review the tax treatment of capital gains in the context of comprehensive tax reform.
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.