Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Tax year 2008 is drawing to an end and with the downturn in the stock market and an uncertain economy, many investors are unloading their bad stocks by the Dec. 31 deadline to claim a loss on their tax returns....
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