December 2009 – Page 4 – The Solari Library

Mortgage Markets – Week of 12.27.09

December 27, 2009

Lawmakers Want Probe Into Treasury Aid for Fannie, Freddie The Wall Street Journal (30 Dec 09) Billions to Fight Foreclosure, But Few New Loans The

Geopolitical – Week of 12.27.09

December 27, 2009

IRS Loosens Rules on Preparer Use of Taxpayer Info Web CPA (30 Dec 09) Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels? Salem-News.com (28 Dec 09)

Technology – Week of 12.27.09

December 27, 2009

Yahoo Sells All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price Mathaba (05 Dec 09) China To Require Internet Domain Name Registration

Life – Week of 12.27.09

December 27, 2009

Missing Dutch Sailor Laura Dekker, 14, Found on Caribbean Island Guardian.co.uk (20 Dec 09) Anybody Seen Pati? The New York Times (26 Dec 09) China

Food & Health – Week of 12.27.09

December 27, 2009

Doctor Admits Israeli Pathologists Harvested Organs Without Consent Guardian | 21 December 2009 From… More Herbicide Use Reported on Genetically Modified Crops CSMonitor.com (21 Dec

Food & Health – Week of 12.27.09

December 27, 2009

More Herbicide Use Reported on Genetically Modified Crops CSMonitor.com (21 Dec 09) Leading Causes of Death Center For Disease Control Billy Shore Discusses Crisis of

Gifting to the Children We Love – Part X

December 26, 2009

Read the full article here. We live in a world of increasing risk. The family is the most successful risk-management organization created by mankind. Yet

Happy Holidays!

December 25, 2009

See Catherine’s meditations at Christmas, 2003, “Angels Watching Over Us.”

In Hoc Anno Domini

December 24, 2009

Vermont Royster’s Christmas message of 1949 has been republished by the Wall Street Journal every Christmas since. As I can not think of a more

Gifting to the Children We Love – Part IX

December 23, 2009

Read the full article here. Nature of Gifts and Applicability of Gift Tax Unlike income taxes, the federal gift tax applies to donors of gifts,