New retirement rules in legislation signed by President Biden in December contain a handful of changes to required withdrawals from retirement accounts that score big brownie points with well-heeled seniors. The new law ramps up the age you must start withdrawing required minimum distributions, or RMDs, from individual retirement accounts (IRAs), 401(k)s, and 403 (b) plans, to 73 this year, up from 72. That requirement will leap to age 75 in 2033. Another provision eliminates RMDs from Roth… Source link
Read More »Billionaire Grant Cardone Says ‘You Are Not Wealthy… You Are Worried’
The man who boldly predicted that America would become a nation of renters and that the Federal Reserve forced the general public out of the housing market is back with more calculated claims that, upon further investigation, feel like more uncomfortable truth than the attention-grabbing headline. In the past month, Cardone Capital CEO Grant Cardone has spread the word to the masses that the single-digit millionaire is the new middle class. His point is proven with a few basic math problems… Source link
Read More »More than half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck — even the wealthy are feeling the heat of continued inflation
Pushing yourself to save can be a challenge, but more and more consumers are tallying up their monthly expenses to find they have nothing left to save anyway. A recent study shows 58% of Americans report living paycheck to paycheck in May, up from 54% the same month last year. Of those earning $50,000 to $100,000, about 62% were stuck in this cycle. But it’s not just lower-income groups struggling to foot the bills, according to the report produced by payments and commerce platform PYMNTS… Source link
Read More »JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told wealthy clients there’s a chance the US is heading into ‘something worse’ than a recession, report says
P Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon looks on during the inauguration of the new French headquarters of US’ JP Morgan bank in June 2021 in Paris.MICHEL EULER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon spoke to some of the bank’s wealthy clients on a call Tuesday, Yahoo reported. He said there’s a 20-30% chance of a “harder recession” and equal odds of “something worse.” He described current risks as “storm clouds,” an apparent downgrade from his June warning of a “hurricane.” JPMorgan CEO Jamie… Source link
Read More »All that COVID aid included $366 billion for the wealthy
Congress is getting better at heading off devastating recessions. Yet the gusher of stimulus money Congress provided to offset the COVID recession during the last two years included hundreds of billions of dollars for wealthy Americans, with little benefit to the ordinary workers the money was supposed to help. New research by MIT economist David Autor and nine others finds that the Paycheck Protection Program, an $800 billion aid package Congress passed in March 2020, was one of the… Source link
Read More »Democrats Back Off Plan to Raise Tax Rates on Corporations, Wealthy
Raising tax rates on corporations and high-income households is a key part of Democrats’ plan to pay for their proposed multi-trillion-dollar social spending plan, but opposition to that approach from Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has sent lawmakers scrambling to find alternative ways to offset costs. Given Sinema’s resistance, there’s a growing chance that the corporate income tax rate could remain untouched in the Democratic budget bill. Even the compromise rate of 25% reportedly… Source link
Read More »Higher taxes may be on the way for wealthy Americans after House vote
Wealthy people are bracing for potentially higher taxes that could hit their bank accounts as soon as this year, while lower- and middle-income Americans could end up enjoying tax breaks from Uncle Sam that were originally only temporary. Last week, the House passed a $3.5 trillion budget plan that may ultimately include numerous Democratic proposals for taxing high-income earners and corporations and expanding tax credits for middle- and low-income earners. Democrats are still writing the… Source link
Read More »Biggest Tax Hike on Wealthy Since ‘93 Is Bogged Down in U.S. Congress
(Bloomberg) — Wealthy Americans wondering how much more taxes they’ll owe after Democrats pass their sweeping social-spending package may have to wait until deep into the fall, or later, to find out. The tax-writing panels in the House and Senate had until Sept. 15 to finish writing the details of what would amount to the biggest tax-hike package since 1993. Those details are part of a legislative push that incorporates Democrats’ plans for ramping up spending on initiatives including… Source link
Read More »Wealthy Americans snap up vacation homes and invest in a change of scenery in a hot market
Tiffany Thompson’s condo in Indian Wells, California. Tiffany Thompson decided that a year of working from her Los Angeles home with her husband was too much of a good thing. A change of scenery and the ability to be apart on occasion in a home away from home seemed appealing. Plus, the Emmy-winning freelance TV producer and her husband, Chase Kopecky, an editor at ABC Network Television, had been saving money. “I was making more money than normal because I was able to do multiple projects at… Source link
Read More »A Record Buyout Is Just the Start as Wealthy Flee Tax Hike
(Bloomberg) — For 110 years, four generations of Mills family members earned their money by expanding their great-grandfather’s Chicago apron business into a medical supplier that ranked among the nation’s largest private companies. But soon after Democrats turned their attention toward raising taxes for the wealthy this year, the family signed a deal to cash out billions. It was no coincidence, according to people close to the more-than $30 billion transaction, which sold part of Medline… Source link
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