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Is this the bottom? How to recover your stock market losses

This question is on the minds of millions of Americans. I know exactly how to recover your losses: get out of the U.S. stock market and recoup your losses elsewhere.

S&P 500 loses 28% in one year

The sales pitch of securities salesman is that the stock market goes up around 8% or 9% per year over the long run – so don’t ever sell as a reaction to losing money. Let’s examine this, and assume your investment performance equaled the S&P 500 (even though the majority of mutual funds’ performance is inferior to that of the S&P 500).

Scenario A – You entered the [Read more...]

Prohibited Transactions Guide Book – 50 Free Copies

I’ve written a comprehensive guide book on prohibited transactions. These will be available for sale soon for $39 + $5 shipping. I’m making 50 copies available completely free of charge on a first come first serve basis.

If you’d like one of these 50 free copies, please email your name & shipping address to:

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This blog has been viewed over 20,000 times since April, so act fast  ;-)

### Update – October 3, 2008

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Where to form your LLC for virtual or foreign business activities

When you form an LLC (or Corporation), it is registered and created at the state level. You can choose to form an LLC in any state, regardless of your state of residency.

Nexus

When you have business activity that clearly occurs in a specific state, you are said to have “nexus” in that state. If your LLC has nexus in a state, it will probably need to register itself in that state and pay any applicable taxes for doing business there. An LLC is a pass-through entity, meaning it is designed to have zero taxation because income taxes are paid by the LLC owner(s) on their tax return. Unfortunately, some states have created franchise and/or excise taxes that can be costly.

Virtual Businesses

If you are starting an internet business (or any other business that doesn’t create nexus in a specific state) you can choose to form your LLC in a state [Read more...]

Video: Financial Statements of Publicly Traded Companies. How reliable are they?

In this brief video clip, listen to CPA/CFP Eric Wikstrom relate his experience from dealing with financial statements from large corporations during his auditing years, including during his employment at Arthur Andersen before it went down with Enron.

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Eric very politely touches on the issue of large corporations facing a difficult task in producing accurate financial statements. The unreliability of financial statements expands much further when we also consider the many outright scandals we’ve all seen in the news. Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and that breed of scandals. Then there’s the Freddie Mac accounting scandal that misreported income several years in a row by up for $4 billion. Fannie Mae had its own debacle where $200 million of losses were shifted in order for top [Read more...]

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