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Tax planning – Cyber Security Edition: Spring 2018

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Benjamin Franklin famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” The Internal Revenue Service could now add a third certainty, “scams,” to this quote because of the increasing attempts to swindle taxpayers. When Franklin originally penned this in his letter to French physicist Jan-Baptiste Leroy, the United States Postal Service was only 14 years old and mostly delivering mail..

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The Week Ahead – March Madness

Welcome to “The Week Ahead” where we take a moment to provide our thoughts on what we can expect in markets and the economy during the upcoming week.

How about that Kansas/ Duke game? What a thriller! And of course, March Madness isn’t complete without its Cinderella, congrats to the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers! The last time they made the final four? They won the championship (1963)!

The first Fed rate hike of the year. Facebook leaking out..

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The Week Ahead – A First for Everything

Welcome to “The Week Ahead” where we take a moment to provide our thoughts on what we can expect in markets and the economy during the upcoming week.

Since the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament first started in 1939, no #1 seed has ever been upset by a #16 seed. Until now! Congratulations to the University of Maryland Baltimore County Retrievers for being the very first as they defeated the University of Virginia. The other news beyond March..

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