Month: May 2021

In real estate, a 1031 exchange is a swap of one investment property for another that allows capital gains taxes to be deferred. The term, which gets its name from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) code Section 1031, is bandied about by realtors, title companies, investors, and soccer moms. Some people even insist on making
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The financial advice industry has a credibility problem: relatively few American consumers trust it. That creates a challenge for advisors and wealth managers who have long made trustworthiness a pillar of their brands as they seek to gain more clients and assets, according to a new survey by Morning Consult, a data research company. Advisors,
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When it comes to medical research, higher education, cultural institutions and historic neighborhoods, few cities can compete with Boston. The city’s wealth in the arts and and life sciences keeps it vital and active even when the economy slows in other sectors. In fact, a recently-released ranking of the world’s most innovative cities lists Boston
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With Covid encouraging city dwellers to move to the suburbs and families looking for home offices and bigger yards, prices for the American dream home have skyrocketed. Home prices surged in March, up 13.2% from the year prior, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index. “Everybody expected housing to really sort of
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Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has predicted that a flood of institutional money will flow into bitcoin once miners have addressed the renewable energy and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. He said the flood will begin when bitcoin meets the ESG standards which will allow institutional investors to get into the
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Municipals improved Tuesday on the back of a strong primary led by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s $788 million green bonds, gilt-edged Loudoun County, Virginia, and the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, which sold competitively with tight spreads. Triple-A municipal benchmark yield curves were bumped one to two basis points, lagging a four basis point
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Biden famously attacked the decision as “Neanderthal thinking”. When the poster child for Covid lockdowns Dr. Fauci was asked several weeks later why cases and deaths continued to… by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity In March, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas would open for business 100 percent without a
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House flipping is a real estate venture that entails purchasing inexpensive homes that often need work, fixing them up, and then selling them for more than you paid. House flipping can be a lucrative business, but it comes with significant financial risk, especially for beginners. In 2020, home flipping profit margins and sales declined, according
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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson working onboard the International Space Station in August 2017. Jack Fischer / NASA Axiom Space on Tuesday announced that retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and auto racer John Shoffner will lead the company’s second private spaceflight to the International Space Station, tentatively scheduled for the second half of 2022. The pair
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After Tesla’s Elon Musk and Microstrategy CEO Micheal Saylor revealed the revelation of a newly created “Bitcoin Mining Council,” the news became a viral subject. While some crypto supporters like the idea, others have been skeptical of a couple of billionaires having closed-door meetings with North American bitcoin miners. Bitcoin Mining Council Brings Back Memories
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