If you have relatives from Europe look into citizenship via decent. My grandmother was born in Ireland and I was able to acquire Irish citizenship because of that. Now I have dual US/Irish citizenship
My wife still teaches "Consumer and Family Studies" in one of the few school systems here that still has that curriculum. From how amazed the kids are that you can prepare things from scratch I don't think there are too many parents and grandmothers out there cooking dinner. Mostly takeout and packaged goods.
PBS has a secondary channel here called Create that runs a lot of the older cooking shows during the evening and prime-time hours. Maybe take a look and see if it available in your area.
The S&P is growing because companies are borrowing to buy back their stock. It is illegal stock manipulation but that law is no longer enforced. This makes money that used to be taxed as dividends eligible for capital gains treatment and it taxed at a lower rate than it would be as dividends. this lowers tax income to the government. A downward spiral with no end in sight.
Yes. In Massachusetts for a startup by MIT professors and graduates. MA will enforce NDAs and non-compete agreements. It is nothing like California here.
Because MBs during that era were basically Chryslers. MB picked up on the cost cutting when they owned Chrysler and produced a lot of junk during that time.In later years they got back to producing quality products.
Just look at the US tax code to figure out why most of the money in the hands of old white people. The tax benefits of IRA/401K accounts really favor people who have the guts to cut back on consumption and save over the years.That is all money that didn't get spent. Some say it increased the savings rate but did the increased savings really help the country?
"The people who generally have their financial shit together don't usually realize when it's pay day." isn't a specious argument. You would have enough to pay your bills whether or not you got paid for a multiple of months.An emergency fund that covers 6 months of expenses is the first step to having your financial shit in order.If you can manage that it gets easier.
They only time I notice I got paid is when I make a ATM withdrawal and see the balance go up.
An interesting post on a board the almost solely exists to help people find private equity investments.
Leveraged buyouts <> private equity. It is just one form of it. Sometimes the money is borrowed from investors who expect a return on their money. Listen to the horror stories here about diluted shares on a buy out. Whoever lends the money has the leverage.
Which is why tax flight would be a big risk.It compounds over time. You pay taxes on the same money year after year. Nevermind what happens if you save even more. Why stay in an economy that is dying from taxation when you could move to an area with a vibrant economy and avoid the tax.
The US and UK are slowly becoming dinosaurs. The amount of taxes they need to keep functioning as handout societies will be the end of them.
That is a tax that never made sense to me. I know they do it because it is easy to quantify equipment but once you start taxing the means of production all you get is less production and less means of production to tax.
I'm thankful that the construction companies have enough sense to not build more new houses when the is a 6-12 backlog in existing houses. This kind of common sense isn't common in the USA.
And yet as an older citizen of HN I am very concerned about privacy, enough that I use cash for at least half my purchases. Cash is wonderful because cash is anonymous.
I wise boss I had one time told me "Don't worry about the banks and US government and your privacy, they don't have the ability to actually do anything with it. You should worry about Google getting your information."