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We saw the musical " The Greatest Showman " based on one of the greatest showman of 19th century P.T. Barnum . I love musicals (who won't especially folks who grew up seeing bollywood movies - 99 out of 100 movies are musicals). After seeing Hugh Jackman singing in Les Miserables , this was must watch for us. I would recommend both movies if you love musicals. Finally Hugh Jackman is done with his Wolverine claws and exploring other genres (Hugh - there is an idea "Wolverine the Musical"). Now coming to PT Barnum - he was one of the most famous personalities of 19th century. He tried his hands in many fields from entrepreneurship to politics. Along the way he got famous (and infamous) for many of his quotes like: There's a sucker born every minute Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!  We have got something for everyone The noblest art is that of making others happy PT Barnum is also associated with " Barnum Effect ". I

As millions of people, I was eagerly waiting for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I even did advance booking  for all my team members back in Oct. The movie did meet the expectations of all the hype. The story line is kept simple and even though it was a bit long, it kept audience engaged. Now the wait starts for Episode 9! 2019 is going  to be big year with Cricket World Cup, GOT final season and Star Wars Final Episode! The final details of tax bill is out. Let's take another look at some of the " Good, Bad, Ugly " aspects we discussed back in Nov.  Tax brackets went back to 7 but still simplified with lowest starting at 10% and highest at 37%. Generally its good since overall rates have come down for everyone Corporate tax rate reduced from 35% to 21%. They could have settled down with 22% and given more tax cuts to individuals. But we know who controls GOP so this was expected Expands child tax credit - thanks to Marco Rubio. Looks like he is one of the rare ones in G

Hope you had great Thanksgiving. Lot of interesting events have happened in last two weeks so its time to look at some of these - especially on two topics we have visited in past - Taxes and Bitcoin! Unless you are on different planet, you may have heard that Trump and GOP are working on tax cut plans to reward big corporations and their rich donor friends. As college students are getting ready for their finals in next 2 weeks, GOP finally did one night-out (almost) to get something done. They passed almost 500 page (some of that is hand-written) tax reform in senate. Now house and senate need to sort out their differences and vote on final bill. President Trump is going to push his party leaders to get it done before Christmas so that Trump can claim that he had given "Greatest Christmas Gift EVER to American People" for holidays. Watch out @realdonaldtrump twitter feed for such claims! Who benefits from these tax reforms?  Check out my earlier blog regarding this. I woul