Tag Archives: Taxes
Taxing Wealth Instead of Income?
Sign up for our Market CommentaryAuthor: Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D., Post Date: February 13, 2019

With the desire to finance both an increasing deficit and an increase in government services, politicians are searching far and wide for funds. Increasingly, proposals are surfacing to tax wealth rather than income as the means to fund pet projects. The proposals attract followers since unequal distribution of wealth is viewed as a problem that […]
ROBERT EISENBEIS: Tax the rich? Check the facts first
Author: , Post Date: February 4, 2019

Excerpt from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune Tax the rich? Check the facts first Posted Feb 4, 2019 at 2:01 AM by Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. As the political season begins to heat up for 2020, we have seen an increasing number of proposals to provide free education, free health care, a universal guarantee of a living wage, […]
Tax the Rich
Sign up for our Market CommentaryAuthor: Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D., Post Date: January 29, 2019

As the political season begins to heat up for 2020, we have seen an increasing number of proposals to provide free education, free healthcare, a universal guarantee of a living wage, etc. With an historic level of public debt topping $21 trillion and a deficit of nearly $1 trillion and projected to climb even more […]
Bloomberg Surveillance: The Long Party is Over, Kotok Says (Podcast)
Author: , Post Date: September 4, 2018
David Kotok speaks with Bloomberg’s Tim Fox and Tom Keene about ETFs, Bonds, Taxes, & More
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David Kotok speaks with Bloomberg’s Tim Fox and Tom Keene David was asked, “Where are you within your portfolio: cash, bonds, equities?” David responds, “ Bonds, barbelled, that’s an easy one and we’ve been in that mode for a while and we’re going to stay there. In our Leveraged Volatility, that’s a high-frequency trading strategy, […]
Firing back at Hassett
Author: , Post Date: April 23, 2018

Excerpt below. Politico asked for responses to CEA Chair Kevin Hassett appearing to spike the ball on tax cut-induced growth. David Kotok was among the top responses. Cumberland Advisors’ David Kotok: “There is TrumpHateconomics and TrumpLoveconomics. But both use political narrative for data so both are wrong on forecasts and long on hyperbole. In the […]
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Sign up for our Market CommentaryAuthor: David R. Kotok, Post Date: March 1, 2018
401(k) savers: It could be a make-or-break earnings season for investors
Author: , Post Date: January 14, 2018
Excerpts of article below: The upcoming profit-reporting season could be a taxing one for anybody that owns stocks. Indeed, 401(k) investors better hope CEOs are as upbeat about their companies’ future earnings prospects as Wall Street is when they talk about results for the final quarter of 2017. The reason? Hopes are high. Perhaps too high. The historic tax bill signed […]
The GOP Rethinks Debt and Taxes
Author: , Post Date: November 4, 2017

The GOP tax proposal cuts corporate taxes and eliminates key individual deductions. But we’re a long way from a final bill. By Randall W. Forsyth November 4, 2017 Excerpt below of John Mousseau’s comments to Barron’s. A subscription is required to read the full article. Finally, the tax bill would curb borrowing in the municipal-bond […]