Recent content by Edgewater Tom

Maybe it's just me but....many of these stories indicate investment regrets more than investment mistakes. It's one thing to have assets you failed to deploy and, in hindsight, regret that you didn't put them into the big winner of the decade. It's quite another to show that your analysis led...

Non-dividend distributions reduce your basis in the stock. Once your basis has been reduced to zero, the IRS will tax those distributions as capital gains in the year of distribution. So, your tax prep program is just monitoring your decreasing basis in the stock pending the day you sell your...

I'm a little surprised at some of the responses here; being that most ERE folks are frugal and "value" seekers. By the time I'm done with something, it's usually used-up, broken, or thread-bare. No criticism...

Finally hit that 2-comma milestone earlier this year. Not sure what I expected but I thought I'd feel different. I guess I let out a little "woo hoo" and then jumped on my bike and went to the gym...and life just went on. The real change had come long ago when I realized what a dollar was...