A century ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem about World War I whose lines resonate today: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity.” One of the… Read Complete Article...

The era of tax-free rollovers from a donor’s IRA to qualified charities began with the Pension Protection Act of 2006. The ability to use this resource for charitable purposes, limited though it may be, may not seem all that significant, but remember that Americans have trillions in retirement assets. For better or worse, the IRA charitable rollover was enacted as… Read Complete Article...