Is It Time To Sell Herbalife? Herbalife is a company which sells product that concerns on weight loss & other things that would help people to live a healthy life. Now, in few weak, several issues have come on the focus for Herbalife. First of all, to sell Herbalife the company has taken a multilevel […]

What Will ECB Do This Week: Since the Euro economy zone have started to show some stabilizing movements, ECB or European central bank is expecting to keep the interest rates at record low, and this interest rate will be charged at 0.75 percent of the principal money. This is one of the record low interest […]

Everyone pays taxes. If you have income, you pay taxes. You also pay taxes whenever you buy something. The biggest taxes however are taxes paid on income. Taxes are important because it funds the services provided by the state to its citizens. The federal government uses your taxes to fund Social Security, national defense, health […]

Bankruptcy may be able to protect you from creditors but not the IRS. Most people really do not understand the process of bankruptcy in relation to taxes. In most cases, filing a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy can eliminate the need to pay taxes but not in all cases. On the other hand, Chapters 11, 12 and […]

Alcoa Beats Estimates: In the fourth quarter earnings where most of the analysts are expecting low growth for companies in this quarter, Alcoa, the global aluminum giant company has come with good news. In the fourth quarter season, it has been able to beat the expectations in this quarter and looks like this might lift […]

The United States markets have arrived on the most awaited fourth quarter earnings season. But, as the market is quite on a declining state, this earnings season is also not showing any silver lining after the dark clouds. The projections are showing that traders have to keep their expectation low for the fourth earning season […]

The second shoe to drop. Just weeks after receiving information that Anthem Blue Cross was raising their rates effective Feb 1st, 2013 for individual family plans, we get a notification that Blue Shield is doing the same which we expected. We now have more detail on that increase and some guidance as to what is […]

Guaranteed Issue coverage and Health Reform By far, the biggest change accompanying health reform (aside from pricing) is the new guaranteed issue status afforded on the individual and family health insurance market in California. As with all things that are sweeping in change, there are pro\’s and con\’s to look at and we\’ll discuss those […]

Playing fortune teller with California health insurance Trying to predict the future resulting from complex interactions between our health system and the equally complicated Health Reform bill is fraught with danger. That being said, here we go…right over the cliff (to use a worn-out term). Barring key changes to the bill itself (which we\’ll also […]

January 1st, 2014 – H Day We tried to be catchy in naming the big date on the horizon for Health Reform but it\’s marginal at best. The name may be lacking but the importance of that date, Jan 1st, 2014 is anything but as it will bring about significant changes to California health insurance […]