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The Rule of 72
Old as the Renaissance, this simplified rule should be shouted from rooftops, emblazoned on blimps and taught in every schoolroom.
For the Love of Stocks
Do not buy stocks because market timing feels right or your buddy picks “hot stocks”; even PhDs fail to understand…
Financial Life Planning and Homelessness
Liberals explain homelessness with low wages, racism, violence, mental illness and drug/alcohol abuse and they prescribe increasingly…
Buckets for Budgeting
At age 20, Sam simply cooked the finest barbeque cuisine for Sequoia weddings and Roaring Camp cookoffs, savoring each bite, then experimenting…
Home Insurance Crisis in the Santa Cruz Mountains
The current crisis in property insurance merely echoes the financial horrors of the CZU fires worsened by the catastrophic legal…
California Taxes We Pay
California Taxes We Pay APRIL 12, 2024 | PRESSBANNER.COMWednesday Kirwan grew up in the Midwest but moved to California to raise her daughter with...
Death and Taxes in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Death and taxes misshape the legacies we mold with our lives and values. As a widower, I advise survivors to honestly accept pain and meditate…
The ABCs of American Taxes
Some Santa Cruz Mountain residents have taxes so simple they fit on form 1040 alone–wages and pensions–and they don’t need…
Employee Stock Options Bring Wealth and Tech to the SC Mountains
To design the coolest toys in the smallest boxes, local tech firms offer engineers and managers not just quarter million dollar salaries…