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• Yes, You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing

  Q. My wife and I have about $320,000 of investments. About a third of that amount is invested in two royalty investment trusts. One is oil-based, and the other is in natural gas. Even after the recent dunking the energy market has taken, we are still... Posted Jan 19 2006, 02:40 PM by scottb with | with no comments Filed under: Consumption Smoothing, Government, Taxes & Other Disasters, Home Ownership & Mortgages, Income Investing, Q&A (from print), Retirement

• Should You Pay Taxes Today?

  Q. Assuming you take advantage of all of your employer's retirement benefits, are there circumstances under which it would be advisable to take your salary today and invest a post-tax portion in taxable funds rather than place the pre-tax amount in a... Posted May 19 2005, 10:34 AM by scottb with | with no comments Filed under: Government, Taxes & Other Disasters, Q&A (from print), Retirement