Month: June 2021

Unfortunately, small-cap stocks have a bad reputation. The media usually focuses on the negative side. They say that small cap investing is too risky. One frequently hears claims that fraud is rampant. They also say small caps lack the quality that investors should demand in a company. Indeed, these are all valid concerns for any
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Boston Federal Reserve president Eric Rosengren discussed stablecoins in a recent presentation on June 25. Rosengren stressed that stablecoins could be a “disruptor” to prime money market funds and the Boston Fed president remarked that the exponential growth of stablecoins is concerning. Rosengren: ‘We Should Be a Bit Concerned About Stablecoin Markets Growing Very Rapidly’
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Today’s column addresses questions about how Social Security determines survivor benefit rates, how having a younger ex can affect filing options and benefit amounts and whether to claim retirement or widow’s benefits first. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc, which markets
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Now that New York State’s financial plan has shown considerable improvement, it should boost its rainy-day fund reserves, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. In his review of the state’s fiscal 2022 plan, he also called for a restoration of prudent debt policies. DiNapoli cited a “remarkable improvement” in the state’s coffers, with cumulative four-year budget gaps
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Prosecuting an unwinnable war while simultaneously building the Great Society proved to be incredibly expensive, and the US… by Simon Black of Sovereign Man 1960 was supposed to have been a fantastic year. The world was largely at peace for the first time in decades and had fully recovered from the influenza pandemic that had
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Institutional exposure to cryptocurrencies via derivatives continued to grow in the second quarter, as CME Group’s newly launched Bitcoin (BTC) micro contract received considerable uptick in its first two months of trading.  Since launching on May 3, CME’s Micro Bitcoin futures contract has already surpassed 1 million contracts traded, the Chicago-based derivatives market announced earlier
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Oregon-based Nike (NKE) is one of the most recognized brands across the globe. The company, founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports, is still going strong even today. Known for its iconic slogan—”Just Do It”—Nike is the largest supplier of athletic apparel and footwear. It also designs, manufactures, and markets its own line of sports
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A US start-up has successfully treated the first patients using a Crispr gene-editing therapy directed inside the body to an internal organ. The early trial data from Intellia Therapeutics, co-founded by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna, marked a breakthrough for Crispr-based treatments, showing scientists had overcome challenges that had previously restricted the technology’s use to
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Oh boy, crypto miners. Companies like SOS Limited (SOS) have been on a rocky ride of late, to say the least. Since hitting a high of nearly $16 per share earlier this year during the initial meme stock rally, shares of SOS stock have been on a downward trajectory. Currently, SOS stock trades at around
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As the spotlight turns once again towards the environmental impact of blockchain technologies, support for the Crypto Climate Accord has come from curious corners of the industry, raising questions about its signatories’ motives. Authenticity of CCA’s Support Remains Debatable With concerns surrounding blockchain’s environmental impact garnering a lot of attention, the alarms have grown so
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Earlier this week, the media reported that life expectancy in the U.S. had declined by nearly two years between 2018 and 2020, primarily due to the pandemic. The news was more disturbing for people of color: For African Americans, life expectancy declined by 3.3 years and by 3.9 years for Hispanic Americans. Does this mean
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Risk has not been extinguished, it is expanding geometrically beneath the false stability of a monstrously manipulated market…  by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds Risk has not been extinguished, it is expanding geometrically beneath the false stability of a monstrously manipulated market. One of the most under-appreciated investment insights is courtesy of Mike
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Biogen Inc. (BIIB) is at the forefront of one of the world’s most important and least understood sectors, the biotechnology industry. With a market cap above $52 billion as of June 2021, the company’s product line consists of a handful of highly effective and very expensive drugs used to treat serious diseases including multiple sclerosis (MS) and
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Donald Trump held his first rally since leaving the White House on Saturday night, addressing thousands of supporters in a freewheeling speech at a fairground in north-east Ohio that the former US president billed as the “very first rally of the 2022 election”. “My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over,” Trump told throngs
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