Category: Exit Planning

For a lot of small business owners, 2020 has left an indelible mark. As the prospect that a capital gains tax increase looms large, many owners are deciding to expedite their exit plans. They are deciding not to try to stick around for the next “Black Swan” event. New data suggests that exit planning advisors… Continue reading Business Owner Transitions in 2021

I hope I never have to hear the term “new normal” again. I bristle every time I hear it because there is nothing normal about what we have been experiencing. Yet, this experience, as challenging and demanding as it’s been, has left me feeling both grateful as well as eager. I am grateful that my… Continue reading Thriving in Difficult Times

Background Facts: The COVID-19 virus originated in China in a lab. It escaped that lab in Q4 2019. China hid the facts surrounding the virus from the world until January 2020. As a result, the COVID-19 virus subsequently spread around the world with catastrophic consequences. The virus still persists everywhere in the world today and… Continue reading China and COVID-19 – An Inconvenient Truth (November 2019 – November 2020)

The product of a new nation, George Washington, was a leader who shines among the best. While Thomas Jefferson was more learned, more cultivated, a more extraordinary mind with unsurpassed intelligence, Washington had a character of rock and a kind of nobility that exerted natural dominion over others, together with the inner strength and perseverance… Continue reading The Founding Fathers

Currently, there’s a law firm in South Carolina that says it is suing some 30 higher learning institutions for tuition and board payback (includes Columbia, Cornell, and UPenn). They are arguing breach of contract saying in effect these institutions charged students for a certain type of college campus experience this year and instead gave them… Continue reading The College Quandry