The Week in Review from Valeo Financial Advisors (April 6, 2012)
Family Finances
- Family Debt: Before and After the Great Recession Valeo Financial Advisors
- What Americans buy now, and what we bought in 1949. Planet Money
- Can Twitter make Roth IRAs trendy for young? Yahoo! Finance
U.S. Economy
- Jobless rate dips to 8.2% Yahoo! Finance
Europe
- To meet its austerity driven budget target, Spain has to find fully €55 billion in cuts. That is €1,166 per Spaniard The Economist
Investments
- The importance of asset location in maximizing a portfolio’s overall after-tax return Vanguard
- The JOBS Act will lift a depression era rule that banned advertising by hedge fund & private equity firms CNN Money
Taxes
- States cut taxes more than they increased them for the first time in ten years. The most and least taxing states in 2012 – Bloomberg
- What you need to know about charitable donations Yahoo! Finance
Miscellaneous
- Stumped by an economics term? Check out the new glossary from Page One Economics St. Louis Federal Reserve
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