Demystified Blog Archive #53 – BONUS CONTENT before and after year en
Saturday, December 15
It’s official!The Federal Reserve is totally insolvent!Yesterday, the Fed released its latest quarterly financial statements, showing that the value of their bonds is now $66.5 billion less than what they paid.And that $66.5 billion unrealized loss is far greater than Fed’s razor-thin $39 billion...
Demystified Blog Archive #52 – BONUS CONTENT w/ co-author Shahar Plinn
Monday, December 03
This week Microsoft just announced surpassing Apple. In terms of market capitalization, they are now the largest company in the world.For shareholders, this presents a HUGE OPPORTUNITY!There is a hidden gem within the US Tax Code known as opportunity zones.The example let’s say you have Microsoft...
Demystified Blog Archive #51 – SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
Monday, December 03
We are writing you with big news!Justin J Ash CPA, PLLC has taken a big step in moving forward! After ten great years, we have strategically merged our practice with a local Kirkland, WA accounting firm and will be operating moving forward as GPL Tax & Accounting, Inc. Since the official mer...
Demystified Blog Archive #51 – Create Permanent Tax Savings #4
Wednesday, November 21
Historically, October has been an economic month of reckoning.The terrible stock market crash that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression was in October of 1929.The stock market crash known as Black Monday was in October of 1987.In 1997, the Asian financial crisis sparked another stock ma...
Demystified Blog Archive #50 – Create Permanent Tax Savings #3
Wednesday, November 14
Recently, stocks around the world have been pummeled.Global markets have shed nearly $7 trillion in value since late September. There wasn’t any one thing that sent stocks plunging. Investors are just getting nervous. And with good reason.Interest rates are rising, midterm elections have brought ...
Demystified Blog Archive #49 – Create Permanent Tax Savings #2
Sunday, November 04
The global economy is certainly growing.US GDP has increased from $14.8 trillion just prior to Lehman’s collapse ten years ago, to $20.4 trillion today, an increase of 38%.These are all good signs. And if that’s all you look at, it certainly seems like everything’s all good.But remember that grea...