List/Grid Author Archives: Winthrop Quigley / Journal Staff Writer
Uncertainty shadows rules on estate tax
Congress has thrown so many curve balls at estate tax planners lately you’d think Dodgers pitching great Sandy Koufax was in charge. Gazillionaires who died last year, among them New... Read more »
Health-Care Reform Act Assailed
Congress caved into corporate interests last year to enact a health care policy that will leave millions of Americans without insurance, do nothing to rein in rising costs and put... Read more »
Off The Beaten Path
Just when investors finally got comfortable with putting their money in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China, financial advisers are recommending they look at investments in the... Read more »
Jobless Rate Has Big Drop
An unusually large improvement in New Mexico’s unemployment rate in March prompted the state Department of Workforce Solutions to caution on Thursday that the number could be revised. The department... Read more »
New Mexico’s Unemployment Rate Improves in March
An unusually large improvement in New Mexico’s unemployment rate in March prompted the state Department of Workforce Solutions to caution on Thursday that the number could be revised in the... Read more »
New N.M. Jobs Data No Trend
New U.S. Labor Department data released Tuesday show New Mexico’s unemployment rate improved faster than any other state’s between February and March. But don’t uncork the champagne just yet. New... Read more »
Republicans, Democrats get serious
Finally, Republicans and Democrats are acknowledging in public that there is an elephant in the room: the 100 million people who receive Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Congressional budget debates, for... Read more »
Analyst Doubts N.M. Jobless Data
New Mexico’s employment picture, ranked worst among U.S. states and the District of Columbia by one gauge, is probably better than that, says Lee Reynis, director of the University of... Read more »
Tax advantages make life insurance a useful financial tool
Life insurance is designed to provide a policyholder’s beneficiaries with a cash cushion, but tax and financial planners say life insurance can be a useful financial tool as well. Patrick... Read more »
