Author- Harold Sasnowitz

Be Smart with Your Money – Make your Charitable Donations from your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) using a Qualified Charitable Donation (QCD). This is a tax efficient way to use your RMD to make charitable donations and get the biggest tax bang for your charitable buck.

The global stock markets have dropped the last 2 days in response of fears about the spread of the coronavirus. As the reports of deaths due to the coronavirus expand beyond China, health officials in most countries, including the US, are developing containment and treatment plans. Pharmaceutical companies around the globe are developing coronavirus drugs and vaccines.

Basic Medicare, while a good benefit available to many Americans over age 65, is not a complete medical insurance solution.  There are “gaps” in the coverage.  To fill these, there are some standardized (by Medicare) policies available from insurers.  These ten standardized policies are Plans (called Plans A, B, C, D, F, G, K, L, M, and N), each having a different lev

There’s an old story about a king who, while indebted to a sorcerer, is given the choice of paying cash in 30,000 talents of silver to the sorcerer, or paying the sorcerer one talent on day one, and doubling the payment each day.  This payment would continue for each square on a checkerboard (64 squares).

This past weekend’s news channels were consumed with President Trump, Robert Mueller, and the report summary of the Russia collusion investigation.  If you were paying attention to the economic news before this took over the media, you likely heard the alarmist headlines on Friday about the inverted yield curve, which (you probably also read) inevitably signals an upcoming economic r

There are certain fallacies identified by behavioral economists that impact how we make decisions as investors, and being the emotional creatures that we are, we tend to be heavily influenced by these.

Economics entered its modern sense in the nineteenth century, but economic thought certainly started long before that.  However, economists almost always started from the assumption that people would do what was in their own best interest.  In the last 20 or 30 years, some economists started to question this assumption.  From this was born the subject of behavioral economics, als

It’s almost Halloween, so we wanted to talk about something that can sometimes be a little spooky… Medicare.  Are you frightened yet?  Hopefully not, but we know from our experience when our clients have to enroll in Medicare for the first time it can be an intimidating thing.  Think about it, you have been on your employer’s insurance for years then one day yo

Medicare open enrollment is here – October 15^th to December 7^th  – and from our experience and client feedback, it can be pretty intimidating.  With the amount of sales advertisements that show up, the biggest question is where to begin.

Now and then someone asks me how to decide if a car should be repaired or replaced. Of course, I also have had to face this decision. Here’s thoughts on possible considerations to take into account, and of course, the decision may rest on the specific facts and circumstances.