Estate-planning expert Deborah Jacobs details how spouses can take advantage of the 'portability' tax provision, which allows them to maximize both partners' estate tax exclusion, and how this strategy differs from trusts.
Although we're unlikely to face a worst-case scenario on the debt ceiling debate, it's important for investors to understand the potential consequences.
Headlines this week revealed a new nomination but an old hat at the Treasury, a new direction for an old-line grocer, and same-old, same-old at the ECB--for now, anyway.
Our top-rated stocks continue to do well, turning in very respectable performance in 2006. I'm happy that our patient strategy of recommending only stocks trading at a price that includes a reasonable margin of safety is paying off nicely for consumers of our research. As we have for the past few ...