Month: November 2020

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media after … [+] receiving a briefing from the transition COVID-19 advisory board. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Getty Images In his campaign, President-elect Joe Biden promised a wide range of policy changes aimed at supporting older adults, including paid leave and tax
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U.S. equity futures were flat in overnight trading on Tuesday, amid this week’s rotation out of technology stocks into cyclical names. Dow futures dropped 40 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.1% and 0.14%, respectively. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 262 points. Fueling the rally is the hopes of
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about when a person can receive spousal benefits, whether it’s possible to receive widow’s benefits on the record of a spouse with substantial income who died 11 months after marriage and when divorced spousal benefits can be paid. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston
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Tech billionaire Mark Cuban has been an outspoken voice throughout the 2020 election process, from endorsing President-elect Joe Biden while criticizing President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 response to saying that certain aspects of “both sides scare me.” Despite making clear his preference of Biden over Trump before this month’s presidential election, Cuban now also says he
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shapecharge | E+ | Getty Images Medicare beneficiaries who pay extra for coverage due to higher income should be aware that those monthly surcharges are creeping up for 2021. With the standard premium for Part B (which covers outpatient care) now set at $148.50 next year, those so-called income-related monthly adjustment amounts, or IRMAAs, will
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Loren Ponds Courtesy of Loren Ponds Shortly after Loren Ponds finished her LLM in tax at Georgetown University, she packed up her apartment in Washington and moved to Germany to research international tax under a prestigious, German-funded global fellowship. It would seem like a routine move for an international tax lawyer, especially one like Ponds, who was thinking about
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