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How And Why To Give Away Your Money In 2024

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

While no significant decreases in charitable giving were found, CCS did find that “in more recent presidential election years, it appears that political giving is making up an increasingly larger percentage of all giving during the months surrounding the election, hovering around 12% in the fall of 2016 compared to around 8% in the fall of 2004.”

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Sunday Retirement Reading

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The Atlantic had what I would describe as a very left leaning article about lowering the retirement age in the US while increasing payroll taxes to pay for it and to cover the expected shortfall in Social Security due to hit in 10-12 years. For the record, I am very centrist. Some conservative ideas appeal to me as do some liberal ideas.

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Top Mutual Funds For SIP In 2023

Trade Brains

Yeah, that lot that talks about terms like compounding, risk profile, returns, retirement planning, budgeting, Investing, and whatnot! Top Mutual Funds For SIP #2 – IDFC Tax Advantage (ELSS) Direct Plan-Growth Fund Company IDFC Asset Management Company Ltd Size (AUM in Cr) 4,033 3-yr returns (CAGR) 22.56 1-yr return 2.5

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. You know, a rich life, most people expect a money book to start with a chapter on budgets. We’re going to get a budget. Everybody hates the word budget. Everybody hates the word budget. I hate budgets myself. SETHI: Yes. How did that evolve into a book?

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

That’s less than one 100th of 1% of the annual budget. If you start with a thousand and you only have an addition of $750 a year, okay, families can contribute to that, your 00:44:48 [Speaker Changed] Corporate tax free. You take it out tax free as well. So what we envision is, think of a four oh one K from birth.

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What Happened to "Paying off the National Debt"?

Calculated Risk

While the magnitudes of future federal unified budget surpluses are uncertain, they are highly likely to remain sizable for some time. [C]urrent C]urrent forecasts suggest that under a reasonably wide variety of possible tax and spending policies, the resulting surpluses will allow the Treasury debt held by the public to be paid off.

Budgeting 363
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What Happened to "Paying off the National Debt"?

Calculated Risk

While the magnitudes of future federal unified budget surpluses are uncertain, they are highly likely to remain sizable for some time. [C]urrent C]urrent forecasts suggest that under a reasonably wide variety of possible tax and spending policies, the resulting surpluses will allow the Treasury debt held by the public to be paid off.

Taxes 321