Tax Changes Are Coming Next Year, but You Can Plan for Them Now<\/strong><\/p>\n Tips from the article:<\/p>\n 1. Pay property taxes early.<\/p>\n 2. Prepay state taxes, but only if you don’t qualify for AMT.<\/p>\n 3. Make large charitable donations.<\/p>\n 4. Harvest stock losses.<\/p>\n 5. Don’t act hastily.<\/p>\n Read the full article\u00a0here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Important weekend reading:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Skin Cancers Rise, Along With Questionable Treatments<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Hackers steal $70 million in bitcoin<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n New Evidence for Critics of Weight-Loss and Sports Supplements<\/strong> Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Hidden Player Spurring a Wave of Cheap Consumer Devices: Amazon<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Harvey Weinstein’s complicity machine<\/strong><\/p>\n Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The Inviolate Stop Loss revisited<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n So it’s not inviolate. According to many readers;<\/p>\n + “10% is too small for volatile tech stocks. 20% is better.”<\/p>\n + “Often, when my stop is hit, the stock will appear to be right on support on longer and shorter term charts. In such cases I will hold the stock unless it breaks through support. It helps avoid the frustration of selling out right at the bottom.”<\/p>\n In short, if you’re uncomfortable with 10%, try 15%.<\/p>\n Stop losses can (and should) vary by stock. Ideas:<\/p>\n + Tech stocks may deserve 15%.<\/p>\n + Broken companies, i.e. ones with lately poor earnings and poor prospects may deserve 0%.<\/p>\n + Your own enthusiasm for the stock counts, also.<\/p>\n Tips on how to offend everybody<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I came out of the chip shop with a meat\/potato pie, large chips, mushy peas & a jumbo sausage. A fat girl took a while to serve me in McDonald’s at lunch time today. An Irish boy stands crying at the side of the road. A woman has a medical at the doctors… My answer, based on living in New York and watching him over many years and speaking to his lawyers:<\/p>\n He tries anything and everything. And has — from an airline to a university, to steaks and a mortgage company, from board games to casinos. Most he seems to do with little forethought, or genuine understanding of the business. When they fail, he closes them down and moves on. He suffers a little. His creditors and investors suffer more.<\/p>\n Try anything. Roll the dice. This is a strange way to run a country. Combine “try anything” with fulfilling campaign promises he made to his supporters and you end up naming Jerusalem capital of Israel or promoting coal by removing restrictions on dumping dirty stuff into clean streams or spewing it into clean air. He made these promises up by seeing reactions from campaign speeches. Think those little red lights on top of the TV cameras. Make up promises. Keep the lights on.<\/p>\n Trump is making a handsome profit on the presidency — from the monies the government pays him, to attendance at his Washington hotel and events and attendance at Mar-a-Largo. Another four years as president will clearly benefit his pocketbook. It’s hard to figure if he enjoys being president. He clearly doesn’t enjoy the criticism. But he clearly enjoys the financial rewards — the biggest of which may well be Tax Reform.<\/p>\n Time magazine wrote about about his 16 biggest successes and failures here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nA study finds two illegal and two unknown substances; doctors worry about ties between dietary supplements and liver damage<\/p>\n
\nA poor homeless man sitting there, said, “I’ve not eaten for two days.”
\nI told him, “I wish I had your will power!”<\/p>\n
\nShe said, “Sorry about the wait.”
\nI said, “Don’t worry dear. You might lose it eventually.”<\/p>\n
\nA man asks him,”What’s wrong?”
\nThe boy says,”Me ma is dead”.
\n“Oh bejaysus,” the man says.
\n“Do you want me to call Father O’Riley for you?”
\nThe boy replies,”No tanks mister. Sex is the last ting on me mind at the moment..”<\/p>\n
\n“You are grossly overweight,” he says.
\n“I want a second opinion,” she exclaims.
\n“OK. You’re ugly as well.”<\/p>\n![\"HarryNewton\"](\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/HarryNewton.jpg\")
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\nHarry Newton, whose friends ask, “How does Trump work?<\/em>“<\/p>\n