Medical Treatment Abroad- the latest news

By Dr. Eva Mor Author –“Making the Golden Years Golden” For some time now many Americans have been driven by the high cost of medical insurance and deficiencies in coverage to seek medical treatment abroad, in countries such as Thailand, India, Costa Rica, Brazil, South Africa, Romania, Hungary and other eastern European countries. More than [...]

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Check Your Salary: Five Free Salary Analysis Tools

By Raine Parker When thinking about your salary, either your current salary or the salary for a position in which you’re interested, it’s important to understand how that salary matches up with other salaries for similar sorts of work in related fields. This is especially important nowadays when the economy is suffering and you must [...]

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2010 Was the Worst Year in Housing Ever—So Is Now the Time to Buy?

By Kevin M By all accounts, 2010 was a terrible year in the housing market. How terrible? An article this week on Yahoo! Finance sums it all up in the headline: New-home sales in 2010 fall to lowest level in 47 years. That’s almost half a century and longer than most Americans have been alive. [...]

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Stock Cycles Make It Hard to Walk the Buy-and-Hold Walk

Beyond Buy-and-Hold #22 By Rob Bennett The average long-term stock return is 6.5 percent real. The Stock-Selling Industry uses that fact to push stocks and properly so. There is no other asset class available to the typical middle-class worker that offers returns so high. You need to invest a good portion of your retirement savings [...]

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Taxman teaser – Why Chief Exec of HMRC needs a personal aide

The FT reports that Dame Lesley Strathie, ultimate boss of HMRC, has appointed Carol Bristow – a director-level tax expert – as her personal aide. The FT questions whether there is ny justification for the Chief Exec of HMRC having such a high level personal aide “(Not even Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, has [...]

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Taxman teaser – Why Chief Exec of HMRC needs a personal aide

The FT reports that Dame Lesley Strathie, ultimate boss of HMRC, has appointed Carol Bristow – a director-level tax expert – as her personal aide. The FT questions whether there is ny justification for the Chief Exec of HMRC having such a high level personal aide “(Not even Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, has [...]

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The FT reports that Dame Lesley Strathie, ultimate boss of HMRC, has appointed Carol Bristow – a director-level tax expert – as her personal aide. The role of Lesley Strathie, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary does not require her to understand all aspects of our tax system. (Who does?) The governance structure of HMRC is [...]

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Should you tell your friends and family about your finances?

By Roxanne Peterson It can be quite a complex situation that you face when your relatives ask you about your financial situation. If your finances aren’t in the best of shape, you may be embarrassed to answer their questions. Financial discussions of any type can put us—or even the people we’re talking too—in an embarrassing [...]

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Tax tittle tattle: Ed Balls to be new Shadow Chancellor. So?

I was approached by one of the mainstream papers last night for my observations on the appointment of Ed Balls to replace Alan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor. They needed 100-200 words which I duly supplied. Not sure if they will see the light of day in the press. Here they are for posterity: Ed Balls [...]

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Maximizing Time to Pursue Creativity

By Jakob Barry Everyone’s dream job is to be doing something they enjoy but unfortunately that’s not the case for a large segment of the population, especially in these tough economic times. Rather than holding off on opportunities in order to pursue more meaningful ones many people are settling for whatever they can find in [...]

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