The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, signed today by the president, offers a number of tax law changes in addition to the provision of credit resources for small businesses. A tax break that has received little attention is a one-time opportunity for reduction of the self-employment tax. Read the full article

Melissa Korn at the Wall Street Journal interviewed me last month for the Journal’s Personal Finance feature, “The Game Plan,” in which readers write in and have their retirement planning strategies reviewed by a professional financial planner. The piece appeared in yesterday’s WSJ. Read the full article

Today the College Board released the third edition of a report emphasizing the personal and public benefits of gaining an education beyond high school. Read the full article

It's official. The National Bureau of Economic Research, which decides such things, announced today that the Great Recession ended last June. Read the full article

Last week I attended a talk by Boston Federal Reserve Bank research economist Chris Foote. His subject was the Great Recession, but Foote also dropped a fairly big hint about the likely direction of short-term interest rates for the foreseeable future. Read the full article

In recent years the financial health of the states has been a source of concern, especially in light of their growing pension liabilities. A recent paper by a couple of Northwestern University finance professors indicates that these concerns are well-founded. Read the full article

With all the hoopla over the consumer protections in the July financial reform bill, a permanent increase in the FDIC deposit insurance limit went into effect with relatively little notice. Read the full article

Over at “The Big Picture,” money manager and financial writer Barry Ritholtz is known for being a pretty blunt guy. But today he brought to light an article that pretty much destroys what little respect I had left for the National Association of Realtors. Read the full article

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