Dear Garden State Trust: Are the tax cuts enacted last December having the hoped-for impact? How is the economy doing? —Eternal Optimist Dear Eternal: Too soon to say, but we have a number of good portents. Gross Domestic Product was up 2.2% in the first quarter. In the last four years, the first quarter of…
Month: June 2018

Who Really Made It?
The Museé Terrus in Elne, France, recently cut its collection by more than half when it was revealed that 82 of the museum’s 142 works were fakes or forgeries. The museum relied on its founder to acquire works by Terrus, and the museum spent over $190,000 on these fakes and forgeries over two decades. In…