Jul 13

Christian Lopez, the baseball fan who caught Derek Jeter 3000th hit could end up paying the IRS $13,000 in taxes. The reason is Christian Lopez handed the ball back to Yankees and Yankees rewarded him with goodies.

Christian Lopez Taxation

Christian Lopez was rewarded by the Yankees with luxury box tickets for the rest of the season (including postseason), along with signed baseballs, bats and jerseys from Jeter. In addition, Lopez received four premium front-row seats to last Sunday’s Yankees-Rays game. With those generous gifts comes tax liability.

The IRS will likely consider Lopez’s gratuities from the Yankees as income, and if so, he could end up having to pay anywhere from $5,000 to $13,000 in taxes, according to the New York Daily News.

 

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Nov 28

2009 has to be the year of commodities. If you are a follower of trend following you must have made lots of cash by trend of gold, Silver & Platinum.

Look at this 2009 Price trends of this metals

2009 Gold Price Trend – up 34%

2009 Silver price trend – up 63%

2009 Platinum price trend – up 56%

2009 Palladium price trend – up an impressive 98%

If your mind was focused on the falling prices of real estate & non-starter stock market recoveries, you might have missed this commodities bull.

Should investors jump in? No! I don’t think just because this metal commodities have done well in the past they will continue doing well.

Strategy for making money in Metal commodities.

Whatever goes up, eventually comes down, one strategy is to focus on shorting the metals or sell the futures contract.

Strategy two, only for the seasoned pro, if you know how to play the speculation game keep buying the futures contract.

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