Securing Funding for Border Patrol, Homeland Security and Small Businesses
Secure America Act (S 2) – The Secure America Act is a federal budget reconciliation bill that funds homeland security. It was introduced by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) on May 20…
Supreme Court Will Decide What Homeowners Are Owed When Tax Sale Erases Equity
A county in Michigan was owed about $2,200 in back taxes. To collect it, the government took a home worth close to $200,000, auctioned it for a fraction of that, and called the matter settled. The family is now putting a simple…
Personal Versus Enterprise Goodwill: What You’re Really Selling
Picture two heating-and-cooling companies at opposite ends of the same town. Same revenue, same trucks, same crew. The first one runs on its owner, a guy who spent 20 years…
Tips for Early Retirement Planning
Retirement planning starts with retirement spending. Ideally, retirees are mortgage free and relatively debt free before they leave the working life behind. In retirement, a key strategy is to maintain low monthly staple…
Why Human-Centric Marketing Beats AI Spam Every Time
Every day, businesses are publishing AI-generated blog posts, automated emails, faceless videos and social media threads at an unprecedented scale. A prompt can now produce what once required hours of brainstorming and execution…
Advancing Broadband, Tribal Land Mortgages and Affordable Single-Owner Housing Opportunities
S.98: Rural Broadband Protection Act of 2025 – This bipartisan bill instructs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a vetting…
The IRS Could Owe You Money Thanks to a Pandemic-Era Court Ruling
Here’s something that flew under the radar for most people: a court decision from late last year could put money back in your pocket if you got hit with IRS penalties during COVID. But you need to act fast! For some taxpayers…
Understanding Horizontal Analysis
Horizontal Analysis provides businesses a method to examine financial statement entries by looking at the documents’ number for a specific accounting time frame compared to the same length of a historical period for the same accounting line item…
Understanding Cost of Goods Manufactured
When it comes to the latest report for March 2026 manufactured goods orders, according to the United States Census Bureau’s May 4 report, the government agency reported a 1.5 percent bump…
Windfall Planning Makes Sense for Everyone
Financial windfalls are not uncommon. Every year, entrepreneurs who build their businesses from scratch sell them for millions in profit. In 2024 alone, state lotteries paid out a combined $70.2 billion to prizewinners. Additionally…