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Ed is an emeritus partner in our firm’s East Brunswick, NJ, office and has over 40 years of public accounting experience. Ed is also admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court and has testified as an expert witness in federal and state court regarding business valuations.

In addition, Ed was a founding partner of Mendlowitz Weitsen, LLP, CPAs, which joined with Withum in 2005. Currently, he serves on the NYSSCPA Estate Planning Committee, and was chairman of the committee that planned the NYSSCPA’s 100th Anniversary. The author of 16 books, Ed has also written hundreds of articles for business and professional journals and newsletters. He is the contributing editor to the Practitioners Publishing Company’s 1998/1999 706/709 Deskbook, and the AICPA 2004 edition of the Management of an Accounting Practice Handbook and is on the editorial board of Bottom Line/Personal and Tax Hotline financial newsletters. Appearing regularly on television news programs, Ed has also been quoted in numerous major newspapers and periodicals in the United States.

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Ed is a frequent speaker to many professional and business groups, including the AICPA, NJSCPA, NYSSCPA, American Management Association, the National Committee for Monetary Reform, University of Medicine and Dentistry in NJ and many more. For 11 years, he taught courses on financial analysis, corporate financial policy and theory, monetary and fiscal policy and managerial accounting.

Awards and Accolades

He is the recipient of the Lawler Award for the best article published during 2001 in the Journal of Accountancy.

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Additional Yearly S&P 500 30-Year Charts

I find the following information interesting and informative and put them in charts for easy viewing. Some charts start with 1990, some with 2000 and one with 2001 and they all go through the end of 2024.

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George Washington’s First Inauguration

Next week, Donald J. Trump’s second inauguration will take place. He will become our 47th president. I want to use this occasion to look at the first inauguration of an American president, George Washington, which took place on April 30, 1789.

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Year-End Financial Benchmark Charts and Graphs

These charts reflect my annual tradition of assisting clients with their financial planning. They illustrate the 2024 ten-year annual and cumulative percentage gains or losses of major stock market indexes, interest rates, currencies, and gold.

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