The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

For instance, in 2023 the maximum proportion of your wages taxed for Social Security purposes was $160,200. Thirty years ago the Social Security Administration stopped taking out Social Security taxes once your wages reached $60,600. This wasn't always the number, for the record. The year before that, it was $147,000.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

broken Consider: Making projections based on the financial guidance provided by Plug Power, stock market analysts have predicted the hydrogen fuel cell pioneer was about to become profitable multiple times. Multiply $5 billion by 17%, apply a 21% federal corporate income tax rate, and Plug seems to be saying it will earn $178.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2023

You need to put money into a 401(k) or other tax-advantaged retirement plan at a brokerage firm if you hope to enjoy any financial security as a senior because Social Security alone likely cannot support you once you leave the workforce. The stock market didn't do well, and the average 401(k) account balance took a pretty big dip.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The stock market is coming off of four positive weeks, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the dividend-paying stocks on this list. These stocks have been having a lousy time lately, but their underlying businesses keep putting up consistently positive results. Both are down near 52-week lows. at recent prices.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2024

The DVD-mailer king struggled in the transition to digital video streams, but astute investors who bought Netflix stock during the Qwikster storm have been handsomely rewarded in the long run. For example, the shares I picked up at the end of October 2011 have gained almost exactly 5,000% so far.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 18, 2024

If you're like many people, you might know that it's good to save for retirement with tax-advantaged accounts such as IRAs. A traditional account receives your contributions on a pre-tax basis, shrinking your taxable income and therefore your tax bill for the year of the contribution. What can you do with an IRA?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

With a brief exception in 2018, those payments have grown or remained stable since the BDC's stock market debut in 2011. This REIT employs net leases that transfer all the variable expenses associated with building ownership, such as maintenance and taxes, to its tenants.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 26, 2024

What's more, it can be incredibly tax-efficient. You don't need to constantly buy and sell stocks or invest exclusively in risky, high-yield dividend stocks. Dividend Equity ETF has produced an annualized total return of 12.83% since its inception in late 2011. That could let you leave a lot of money to your heirs.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 22, 2024

There's a maximum amount of earnings subject to Social Security tax every year. Not to mention, investing in the stock market is far from a guarantee. Here's the important thing for high earners, though. The SSA doesn't always count all of your income in its calculation. real returns annually.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

With services that we all need, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) sports some of the stock market's most reliable cash flows. Soaring interest rates have the market worried that Verizon's debt load could become too much of a burden. The company has raised its dividend payout for 17 straight years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

It took another 46 years before he bought shares as CEO, when Berkshire Hathaway instituted its first share repurchase program, in 2011. The new repurchase authorization allows Buffett to buy back shares of Berkshire Hathaway whenever he determines the stock trades below its intrinsic value , judged on a conservative basis.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2024

market closed on Aug. A stock market sell-off isn't great for the performance of stocks already in your portfolio, but it's creating opportunities to buy shares of terrific dividend-paying businesses at a relative discount. The S&P 500 reached a new peak on July 16, and it's been mostly downhill since. When the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2024

Buffett likes to buy stock in companies with steady growth, consistent profitability, solid management teams, and shareholder-friendly initiatives like dividend schemes and stock buyback programs. It's right in the wheelhouse of a patient long-term investor like Buffett , which is why Berkshire has owned the stock since 2011.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 30, 2023

While we observed signs of typical tax seasonality, as well as softer investor sentiment at the beginning of the quarter, we still attracted nearly 1 million new brokerage accounts and finished the period serving $8.02 And the company's gotten very, very good at figuring which properties to buy, and how to make them more marketable.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2024

The broader stock market benchmarks keep reaching new heights, but the S&P 500 index's ongoing bull run has been driven heavily by its largest components. That means there are still plenty of reliable dividend-paying stocks that look like bargains. Its annualized payout, though, has risen steadily since 2011.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After an absolute disaster of a year in 2022, the stock market appears to have turned the corner. Each of the major market indexes has gained more than 20% from their respective trough. In my case, that stock was Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). Things changed quickly in 2016 when the stock tripled. How about the loss of 1.2

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

To have to truly read you back what I wrote 15 or 10 years ago about investing in the stock market and reflect on those, always fun. That's the stock market. Especially if you're a stock market investor, you've come across this phrase. The final two stocks. The first is Nvidia stock Number 6.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

So let’s take a peak at how international stocks performed collectively during that five-year period: Vanguard Total International Stock Market Index ETF: 20.4% Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF: 26.4% iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF: 1.3% (wuff!) stocks and Emerging Markets stocks: 2008 and 2011.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nothing like how August has started for the stock market. I'm originally from Ireland," John wrote, "but have been living in Switzerland for many years, a country where the tax rate on share capital gains is a big fat, and very lovely zero." All right on to poem Number 2. How many friends do I say who had Apple at some point?

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 22, 2020

Since the Dawn of Mustachianism in 2011, the same question has come up over and over again: “MMM, I see your point that index fund investing is the best option. The stock market isn’t the whole economy, it’s just the publicly traded companies, which are the big ones.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

It was April of 2005 and I was casting about for my next stock pick for Motley Fool Stock Advisor members. We were three years into Motley Fool Stock Advisor. Here we were around Tax Day 2005. I was thinking, what's a stock that I could recommend this month? We'd started the service in March of 2002.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Richard Dufour of La Presse reports François Trahan sees the stock market fall by 35% (translated from French): The stock market will end 2023 in the red, according to forecaster François Trahan. If we assume that rates are currently at their highest level, the stock market bottom will therefore be reached in March 2025.”

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due. However, the relation between country debt and stock markets is complex, in part because sovereign solvency is dependent upon many factors other than just debt level. Power of Market Prices.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

1 This trend may be worrisome for investors expecting an adverse impact on stock returns once the bill for all this spending comes due. However, the relation between country debt and stock markets is complex, in part because sovereign solvency is dependent upon many factors other than just debt level. Power of Market Prices.

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ClearMoney

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Dimensional’s systematic active approach is designed to adjust to new information in real time, including information about geopolitical events and their potential repercussions for markets. Geopolitical events like military or economic conflicts can affect stock markets in many ways. Global Developments and Their Impact.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 12, 2022

The economy is having the expected textbook reaction to tariffs, treating them as an unnecessary tax on consumer spending, both here and abroad. Expect future infrastructure projects, Medicare for all, and/or tax cuts to be funded by bonds authorized by Congress, issued by the Treasury, and purchased by the Federal Reserve.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017. And by the middle of December we’re already starting to talk about taxes. We know that we want to get tax done.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

If you were alive and writing checks in 2006 to 2011. Now this cycle, they be what, what happens to great investors after they go through a cycle, if they’re great, they become great investors because they have memory and they have a new muscle that they learned that markets go down. LINDZON: They have their own tax problems.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 31, 2023

And few do it better than Neil does in terms of putting together a global view of what’s happening in the economy, what’s happening around the world, what’s happening with the Fed, and what’s happening with the stock market. And one of the best things that he says is stock markets usually go up.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Although not every aspect of the legislative process has relevance to the stock market, elections do, ultimately, determine which elected officials will shape fiscal policy on Capitol Hill. 19, 2021, the stock market performed exceptionally well. 6, the biggest question of all has been answered: Who will be president?

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