Ostensibly created to help people save for retirement (IRAs, 401ks), health care (HSAs, FSAs) and college (529s), most of those alphabet-soup accounts are tailor-made for tax avoidance. Roth IRAs are ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump likes to throw out a lot of figures during speeches to his base that he says prove how successful ...