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Florida Man Goes From Multilevel Marketing To Cryptocurrency – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Florida Man Goes From Multilevel Marketing To Cryptocurrency – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

More than anything else Dibcoin reminds me of a short story by Poul Anderson titled Fairy Gold which is nicely summarized here. A young man is rewarded for helping an elf with fairy gold.  Fairy gold is just like real gold at night but turns into trash when the sun rises.  A series of transactions occur.  The last one is by the hero’s former girlfriend who sells her grandmother’s business before the coin goes poof, but it is fine because now she can live happily ever after with the hero.  I’m sure a feminist critique of the story would find it problematic, but that’s not going to bother Poul Anderson who died in 2001.

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There’s Still Time To Fund A Roth IRA For Your Underemployed Millennial

Rosen Associates has over 700 dental practices in its client base.  The Roth IRA for kids is part of their standard repertoire with the added wrinkle of, when appropriate, finding things that youngsters can do around the office. The idea works not just for twenty-somethings but even for tweens. I found this story by Natali Morris who pays her three year old and five year old for doing things like putting stamps on mailers and shredding.  That might be getting a little carried away.  Also I would explore potential impact on financial aid, before doing this for kids not yet through college.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.