Conducting a cash-out mortgage refinancing is a way to lower your tax bill. And we all want to lower our taxes! You should defer or shield as much income as comfortably possible until retirement to minimize your present tax bill. The odds of your retirement income equaling your working income is slim-to-none. Therefore, your retirement tax […]
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This is not an educational post. Instead, this is a post about discovery since I don’t quite understand President Obama’s American Jobs Act. One of the key initiatives of the jobs bill is “extending unemployment benefits further” given how bad the labor market is now. I’m in full support of this ~$450 billion dollar bill,
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The September 7th Republican Presidential Debate makes it absolutely clear that President Obama will get re-elected in 2012. Here are my thoughts on each candidate post Republican Presidential debate. I’m editing this post in 2021 and Obama obviously won. Then Trump won. Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn to lead. However, I plan to retire under
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Unemployment day sounds like a good idea. Back in 2011, when this post was fist write, we were just coming out of the recession. Today, it is a similar situation post pandemic. With the US unemployment rate at 9.1%, Americans everywhere celebrated employment by taking Monday, 9/5 off. Does anybody else not find it a
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Give randomly or selectively? That is the question. One of the funnest things about being a part of the online community is the ability to host giveaways and win things as well. The predominant way hosts choose winners is randomized, likely for “fairness” sake and also so that the host doesn’t have to choose. I can
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With the miserable state of the economy today, some are desperate to find ways to attack their debt. People want to avoid bankruptcy or losing their home and savings. The sad reality for many is that bankruptcy and foreclosure are the only events on their financial horizon. In order to attack your debt and free yourself
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Poker is a great game. I played poker extensively from 2010 – 2015. But I decided to quit because the stakes got too high. Here’s an old story during my poker days. For the first time in a while, I attended our regular Friday home game last night from 9pm to 2:30am. I used to
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I live in San Francisco. Therefore, an earthquake disaster may happen one day. It’s not funny to joke about earthquakes, especially since we never know when one will hit. Yes, California always get a bad rap and the big one will come eventually. However, you got to admit there have been some peculiarities about a
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Getting fired sucks. You won’t be able to collect unemployment benefits. But it might not be so bad for your life in the long run. On Yakezie.com, I wrote a post about what I’d do if I got laid off tomorrow. Go check it out. I am the perennial optimist and try to see the good
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How many unemployed workers are there today? The unemployment rate in the US is roughly 4% as of April 2024. However, I’m hard pressed to find anywhere close to 6% of the people I know who are unemployed. If you listen to the media, you’d think the world was coming to an end again. But,
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