by admin | Mar 2, 2022 | History, Tax
1962. It was the only year in which JFK was president for the whole entire year. World events impinged on my family as my big brother onboard an aircraft carrier chasing Soviet submarines when not recovering Mercury astronauts had his four year enlistment extended to...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Books, History
It took something really big to tear me away from The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert Gross. And the big thing was the release of Paradise Atop The Hudson by Sammy Juliano. Fascinating as I find the world Gross writes about – Concord MA in the...
by admin | Jan 1, 2022 | History, Tax
One of those “deja vu all over again” periods is going on with a sudden outbreak of inflation. According to the historical inflation rates table at US Inflation Calculator, we were at 4.2% in April 2021, over 5% May to September, 6.2% in October and 6.8%...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | History, Tax
Aegis For Dreams sounds like it will be a great movie. It is about the relationship between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington and that relationship’s importance in the American struggle for independence. Lafayette another surrogate son of the childless...
by admin | Nov 15, 2021 | Books, History
The visit of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834) to the United States at the invitation of President James Monroe was an epic event. And in the midst of a bitter Presidential contest, Lafayette stood as a symbol of...
by admin | Jun 6, 2021 | History, Tax
This table gives you a today’s dollar multiplier rounded to the nearest dollar from the Inflation calculator You will note that the year range varies significantly as has the rate of inflation. I would further boil this down to a very rough 2 for the nineties,...
