Larry Elkin cautions against leaving insurance payments in a retained asset account.
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Burying A Big-Ticket Tunnel
Big civil engineering projects, like big military weapons systems, are notoriously hard to kill, even when their costs spiral to …
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Getting Real Health Insurance On Campus
When a student chooses a college, he or she often is selecting a health plan as well. And that plan …
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How TARP Staved Off Disaster
Did the Troubled Assets Relief Program save the world? I think I can make a good case that this much-reviled …
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What Colombia’s Example Can, And Can’t, Offer Mexico
Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, the Colombian guerilla leader who was killed in a raid last month, was nicknamed Mono Jojoy …
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What Playing Gotcha Can Getcha
Banks, credit card companies and other financial services firms made an art of snaring customers in loopholes and walloping them …
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A Tax System That Promotes Prosperity
When you don’t ask the right questions, your chances of reaching the right answers are not very good. That is …
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Planning For A Child With Special Needs
Many people have put their estate planning on hold until Congress decides the fate of the federal estate tax. For …
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Foreclosure Foul-ups Further Delay Recovery
The root of the mortgage crisis is the fact that millions of Americans bought homes they could not afford. To …
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