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Yes — beginning with the 2025 tax year, most taxpayers who do not itemize will not be able to deduct charitable gifts on Schedule A, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) creates a new above‑the‑...
Project 2025’s planning apparatus has been funded largely by a small set of wealthy conservative family fortunes and by donor-advised funds routed through major financial firms, with reporting indicat...
Fox News is a division of Fox Corporation, a publicly traded U.S. media company whose , while ordinary equity is widely held by institutional and retail investors. Operational leadership is concentrat...
The IRS finalized inherited-IRA rules after the SECURE Acts that generally force most non-spouse beneficiaries to empty inherited IRAs within 10 years rather than “stretch” over a lifetime; the agency...
Dark money — political spending by entities that do not disclose their donors — surged after Citizens United and is a major, growing force in U.S. elections: one analysis finds nearly $2 billion in da...
The supplied analyses converge on a short list of dominant U.S. media conglomerates — — but disagree on whether Big Tech (Amazon, Meta, Netflix, Apple, Alphabet) should be treated equally as “media co...
For most savers, 2025 is a pivotal year for Roth conversions because the RMD starting age moved to 73 and Congress’s 2025 tax changes (the “One Big Beautiful Bill” or similar packages) locked in lower...
The largest published analyses say Project 2025’s financial backbone is a mix of billionaire family networks, donor-advised funds at major financial firms, and hundreds of conservative nonprofits — wi...
Wealth among U.S. politicians in 2025 comes predominantly from private-sector careers (entrepreneurship, real estate, finance, healthcare), inheritance, investments and continued income from holdings ...
Fox Corporation—the publicly traded parent of Fox News—is , but available analyses disagree on precise percentages and rankings. Multiple recent reports cited here agree the Murdoch Family Trust contr...
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager with roughly under management and broad reach into markets, corporations, and policy debates, but the factual record shows influence through scale, owner...
The best available material in the provided collection reports that as of 2025 the largest reported holder of Fox Corporation is the , followed by and , with and also noted among major holders . Sever...
A Roth IRA conversion adds the converted amount to that year’s taxable income and is taxed as ordinary income, which can directly raise a taxpayer’s marginal rate or push them into higher tax brackets...
Nexstar Media Group is majority-influenced by large institutional investors and its founder-executive leadership, and its ownership consolidation through acquisitions has materially expanded its natio...
Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and News Corp are all publicly traded media conglomerates, but their : Comcast features concentrated voting control tied to its founding famil...
Fox News is a Murdoch-controlled cable news network that remains the dominant player in U.S. cable ratings while facing major legal and reputational challenges that have reshaped its risk profile. , e...
Delaying the first RMD until April 1 creates a situation in which two required minimum distributions must be taken in the same calendar year — and doing so transforms what would have been two separate...
UnitedHealth Group is a publicly traded corporation whose shares are widely held by institutional investors (about 80%–81% per market-data sites) with a small portion held by company insiders and reta...
If by “ETF that tracks the Mag 7” you mean a fund giving direct, concentrated exposure to Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, several ETFs and new launches explicitly do that —...
The name “Vanguard” appears both as a major, legitimate investment firm and as a brand criminals impersonate; regulators and Vanguard itself warn about phishing and impostor sites, and the Solicitors ...