Death and Taxes: Will Your Estate Be Taxed Upon Death?

As the saying goes, “nothing is certain but death and taxes.” In the context of estate planning, this reality drives the estate planner’s desire to minimize death taxes as much as possible. In fact, the world of estate planning is consumed with tax minimization in all its forms. Lawyers and advisors get clients to jump through legal and financial hoops […]

10 things to evaluate when buying a house

Buying a home is a lifetime investment and you need to be very cautious to avoid losing money, buying the wrong home, or buying in the wrong neighborhood. Buying a house is a process that involves a series of steps with the aim of making the wrong decisions. Sometimes, when buying a house, the help of professionals is needed; for […]

Wealth formula that can never fail

A question that keeps coming up in my interaction with some of my readers over the past year is: “What can I do to earn a steady income and stop depending on people?” Every time someone asks me this question, it makes me think. I turn the question around and ask, “Is there a wealth creation formula, one that can […]

Ebu Gogo: a creature of cryptozoology

When Australian and Indonesian archaeologists excavated a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, they found a skeleton of a new species of human, Homo florensiensis, believed to have lived 18,000 years ago. In life, the skeleton could be about a meter long, weigh about 25 kilograms, and have a brain the size of a chimpanzee. Along with the […]