Plus it ties into something many are thinking about this time of year: tax shelters.
About this time of year, the pre-Christian Vikings would be preparing for their annual winter solstice festival.
The subprime meltdown, which began about this time last year with the bankruptcy of New Century Financial, has spread throughout the credit markets and has dragged down banks and bond insurers along with it.
The subprime meltdown, which began about this time last year with the bankruptcy of New Century Financial (other-otc: NEWC - news - people ), has spread throughout the credit markets and has dragged down banks and bond insurers along with it.
It was about this time last year when a veterinarian client of Gregory Steinbis, an enrolled agent and CPA in Morgan Hill, Calif.
And could I just ask you both, as a sidebar, this time last year we talked about the case of computer hacker Gary McKinnon, on which the Prime Minister has expressed very clear views.
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And we've spent a lot of time this year talking about eating right.
As it turns out, we thought about this last year at this time, in a column of the same name.
The rest of the time, the marketers gabbed about this year's "winners" over wine and shrimp.
But you may not know that this ritual of climbing prices happens almost every year about this time.
At this time last year, amidst headlines about banks on the verge of collapse and job losses of 700, 000 a month, we received another troubling piece of news about our economy.
At this time last year, the industry was wondering about the impact of a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed in April 2012 against Apple and five leading publishers alleging price fixing for e-books.
Should parents worry about their kids' annual sugar bender at this, the sweetest time of the year?
The reality is that the hotels are about 70 to 80 percent of what they were last year at this time.
Standing among bales of crushed plastic bottles and piles of books waiting to be recycled, Lau says that one kilogram of waste paper would have gotten about 18 cents this time last year.
Meyer liked the post-election ad timing and the fact that this is the time of year many Americans start to think about a new house.
The latest economic data has been somewhat uninspiring, suggesting another mid-cycle slowing of economic growth, not unlike what we experienced about this time last year.
"A group of lads taunted me about spending time in prison earlier this year and having to wear a tag when I was released, " he told the Daily Mirror newspaper.
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The disaster has reduced Tokyo Electric Power Company's capacity to about 34 gigawatts, 20-30% short of peak demand at this time of year, forcing the utility to schedule power cuts.
Mr. Todashev's father, Abdulbaki Todashev, also said his son was disabled by knee surgery earlier this year and was learning to walk again at about the time of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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This time a year ago, FOMC members were expecting growth of about 3.5% in 2012.
Kent says the number of confirmed exhibitors is tracking about 30% higher than where it was this time last year.
Temperatures are running about 5 to 10 degrees Celsius (9 to 18 degrees Fahrenheit) below average for this time of year across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, CNN forecaster Brandon Miller said.
This time last year analysts were predicting that travel to and from Asia would account for about half of all air travel by 2010, double its share today.
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The last thing that you probably want to think about this month is taxes, but now is actually the perfect time to tackle some key end-of-year tax planning that could save you beaucoup bucks come April.
The number of house purchases by first-time buyers rose 12% this year, with about 216, 000 people stepping on to the property ladder, the Halifax reports.
This is the time of year when high school seniors and their parents make their final decisions about which college they will attend over the next four years.
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Deceptively simple but perfect for this time of year is Adin Steinsaltz's Simple Words , a series of short essays about what it means to be human in a material world.
This can be a really stressful time of year, but I wanted to take a minute to remember about gratitude.
With all of the legislative changes around compensation, this is a great time to talk with your shareholders about the year in review.
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