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		<title>What to Do with a Covered Call when the Stock Goes Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I ever write a covered call, I make sure that I would not mind parting with the stock at the strike price.  I usually only write them on stocks that have gone up a lot in my portfolio, that I still think have good longterm appreciation potential (meaning that the company is still doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=1998&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What will Happen to Stock Prices if Capital Gains Taxes Go Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the call for capital gains tax increases making the rounds, investors would be very reasonable to wonder what effect an increase would have on their portfolios.  Obviously an increase would mean that you would receive less money when you sold a stock at a gain.  An increase in the gains rate, however, would immediately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=2017&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debt management still important when economy begins to recover</title>
		<link>http://smallivy.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/debt-management-still-important-when-economy-begins-to-recover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: After the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that an economic recovery could be slowed down by high levels of household debt, financial solutions company Think Money has said that many people are still vulnerable to the effects of the recession, and has advised anyone struggling with debt to seek professional debt advice.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=2021&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are Fair Taxes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture for a moment that eight people go to dinner.  Two of the people are children who have no money.  Four of the people have modest incomes (say, $50,000 per year).  Two of the people have high incomes (Say, $500,000 per year). When the bill arrives, let&#8217;s first assume that the bill is $40, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=2005&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Capital Gains Taxes Should Be Lower than Income Tax Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few posts ago in Not Doing a Good Job of Taxing the Rich, I talked about how raising income tax rates would not cause people like Warren Buffett to pay more because most of his wealth is in the form of capital gains from his investment in Berkshire Hathaway and his income from dividends, both of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=1994&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investing within a Health Savings Account</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>smallivy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited that my company is finally offering a Health Savings Account, or HSA.  This is what the Medical Savings Account and Flexible Savings Account should have been, and what all health plans will probably become in the future after companies discover that other methods cost too much and enough employees start to wonder where all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=1989&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Periodicals to Read for Investing</title>
		<link>http://smallivy.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/periodicals-to-read-for-investing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When getting into investing, there is certainly a lot of information to be read.  Some of it is good, a lot of it is bad.  I&#8217;ve covered some of the good investing books to read in previous posts (browse the categories for Book Recommendations to find these).  Today I&#8217;ll provide some information on the periodicals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=1986&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buy and Hold No Longer Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In their annual Investing Guide, Forbes Magazine&#8217;s first &#8220;new rule of money management&#8221; is that buy and hold will not work anymore.  They say that you must pay a lot more attention to your accounts, being ready to &#8220;sell losers and buy into trends.&#8221; There are several investing rules that have been learned over a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=1983&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Doing a Good Job of Taxing the Rich</title>
		<link>http://smallivy.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/not-doing-a-good-job-of-taxing-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always find it amusing when a politician speaks of &#8220;Taxing the Rich&#8221; that raising taxes on incomes are then proposed.  The latest article on this comes from CNN. &#8220;States Look to Hike Taxes on Millionaires&#8220;.  Per usual, the proposals are to raise taxes on those making high incomes &#8211; perhaps above $500,000 per year. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=1991&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keynesian Economics is Dead, Long Live Keynes (A Response to Paul Klugman&#8217;s Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Maynard Keynes was a Depression era economist.  He was most famous for his economic theory by which a government pulls an economy out of a slowdown (as we&#8217;re going through now) by spending more money.  In the Depression, this lead to the WPA and other such activities. One would have thought that Keynesian Economics was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smallivy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12586540&amp;post=1976&amp;subd=smallivy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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