Issue Number:    IRS Tax Tip 2011-57 Inside This Issue Eight Tips for Deducting Charitable Contributions Charitable contributions made to qualified organizations may help lower your tax bill. The IRS has put together the following eight tips to help ensure your contributions pay off on your tax return. 1.      If your...

Does Money Buy Happiness? (or maybe life satisfaction) Are you happy? Are you satisfied? What is the difference? I guess happiness and satisfaction, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Studies cited in the book Priceless, have shown that once basic needs are taken care of, it...

Don’t you just love it when the Geniuses get it wrong? I am introducing a Genius Award for those times when it becomes so obvious that the ‘Experts’ don’t have a clue. This issues winners are the Economists at the National Association of Realtors (NAR) who seem to have...