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Month: September 2021
By Al Emid, Next Avenue There’s a growing phenomenon in the stock market — “fad investing” — and it’s something you don’t want to do with your money. Fad investing means buying a stock just because some type of activity is trending, regardless of the prospects of the actual company issuing the stock or any serious underpinnings behind
The municipal market traded sideways and activity was muted on Thursday as U.S. Treasuries were steady and equities in the black ahead of the much-anticipated employment report to be released Friday. Refinitiv Lipper reported $1.044 billion of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds for the week ending Sept. 1, down from the $1.9 billion a
Over the course of 2021, the United States Federal Reserve has communicated optimism with respect to the economic recovery from the Covid-19 virus and inflation as it looks to move toward tightening monetary policy. While the Fed’s position is that the recent spike in inflation across a range of products, services and metrics is a
Recent data from the United States should worry us. Amid the reopening and the biggest fiscal and monetary stimulus in recent history… by Daniel Lacalle via Mises Recent macroeconomic data from the United States should worry us. Amid the reopening and the biggest fiscal and monetary stimulus in recent history, and with all the possible tailwinds from policy decisions,
Nearly 15 years ago, Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOGL, GOOG) Google purchased YouTube for the hefty sum of $1.65 billion. The actual date the news hit was Oct. 9, 2006. That may seem like a small sum for the behemoth that YouTube is today. But back then, the video site had been around for less than two
Joe Biden has accused the US Supreme Court of unleashing “unconstitutional chaos” after it made a ruling that allows Texas, the second most populous state, to enact a law banning abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. The US president hit out at the court after it issued an overnight judgment permitting the southern state
Wall Street’s leading stock benchmark hit record highs on Thursday ahead of Friday’s keenly watched US labour market report which will help set the path of monetary policies that have shored up markets during the pandemic. The blue-chip S&P 500 was up 0.1 per cent by mid-afternoon in New York, hitting a high, while the
Three percent of RIAs relocated during the coronavirus pandemic, seeking affordable office spaces and more remote work options. Florida saw headquarters increase by 25% between 2020 and 2021, a SmartAsset report found. Small advisory firms were more likely to change their headquarters: Almost 96% of moves were by RIAs with less than $10 billion in
McDonald’s (MCD) stock has really run out of steam in recent months, amid renewed concerns over the Delta variant of COVID-19. Undoubtedly, many restaurants have seen their reopening plans derailed. As the spread worsens over the coming weeks, a number of McDonald’s franchisees can be expected to roll back their recent reopening of dining rooms.
In this article IYG A sign advertising job openings is seen while people walk into the store in New York City, New York, U.S., August 6, 2021. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters August’s employment report is expected to show another strong month for hiring, but it could also give a glimpse at how the Covid delta
Sharing is Caring! Dead-internet theory suggests that the internet has been almost entirely taken over by artificial intelligence.: If you search the phrase i hate texting on Twitter and scroll down, you will start to notice a pattern. An account with the handle @pixyIuvr and a glowing heart as a profile picture tweets, “i hate
Two bills aimed at furthering the adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain are now law in the state of Texas. Texas House Bills 4474 and 1576, passed by both chambers in the state legislature in May and signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in June, officially took effect on Sept. 1. H.B. 1576 establishes a
Co-Founder & CMO at Poplar Homes, a tech-enabled property management company with 2,200+ doors under management across 10 major metros. Property management is going through an evolution right now, and tech providers have stepped up to the plate to disrupt the industry. There are plenty of incentives as to why. Among them, rental market share continues
As wildfires tear across America’s West, the immediate risk is to life and property, but they will eventually affect water supplies. That’s one reason large corporations are beginning to help fund forest restoration in order to mitigate their water risk. The water supply for many communities, including large cities, starts in mountains and national forests.
sponsored The Play-to-Earn NFT based Polker.Game‘s native token $PKR has been officially listed on the popular centralized exchange BitMart. Polker.game has been in the spotlight recently as Akon, the American R&B superstar and record producer gave his official endorsement of polker stating that the “game is revolutionary” and that Polker is “hands down.. the best
With the stock market seemingly hitting new record highs every day and mortgage rates near record lows, you may be wondering if you should pick up a second home for your future retirement. Perhaps, a vacation home you can enjoy now while you wait for the day you reach financial freedom and decide to end
The first quarter of 2021 saw almost all states record their highest ever year-over-year increases in personal income, with national personal income rising an almost unheard of inflation-adjusted 14.4%. That data came courtesy of a new analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts. State personal income matters to state governments because tax revenue and spending demands
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The Fed knows they risk collapsing asset prices should rates… Michael Pento with Patrick V. on Silver Bullion TV SBTV spoke with Michael Pento, founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies, about how the Fed’s Taper Tantrum specter will affect markets. If the last taper exercise could not raise rates beyond 2.5%, the Fed knows they risk
Splitwise is a free app that allows consumers to split expenses with friends. If a group needs to share the cost of a particular bill, Splitwise ensures that anyone who pays is reimbursed the correct amount and with a minimal number of transactions. Splitwise, users can send an email notification when a bill is due,
Democrats want to drive carbon emissions out of the US power grid. But groups representing thousands of smaller electric utilities are wary of being conscripted in the campaign. The Democratic-led US Congress last week approved a $3.5tn budget framework set to include a “clean electricity payment programme”, which would reward utilities that sell more zero-carbon
The introduction of new technologies often sparks moral panics. Socrates warned that writing degraded understanding. In the 19th century, passengers worried that women’s uteruses might fly out of their bodies if they travelled too fast on railway trains. And the lobbyist Jack Valenti told the US Congress that the video cassette recorder was as dangerous
In this article SCHW Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images It’s good to be in an up market. A new Schwab report on self-directed brokerage accounts within 401(k) plans indicate that active traders have
Small businesses, especially those in financial and professional services, typically rely heavily on in-person meetings, events and conferences to foster connection and visibility with their networks. After all, being present and active in the community is often vital for small business growth and customer retention. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 delta variant has already led to the
Facebook (FB) periodically infuriates advertisers for whatever shenanigans it is deemed to have crossed the line with, but despite the short-term impact, that has never really impeded its spectacular growth rate. However, in the changing digital advertising landscape, there are now better positioned companies ready to siphon away ad spend, so says Rosenblatt Securities analyst
The CMA CGM Marco Polo, an Explorer class container ship is aided by a tug boat as it crosses under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, to enter New York Harbor as seen from Brooklyn, New York, U.S., May 20, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The world economy runs on global supply chains. But that system is now
Sharing is Caring! by Charles Hugh-Smith The incentives must change from “waste is growth” to hyper-efficiency, conservation, right to repair and manufactured objects engineered to last a generation or longer and be recyclable at scale. Humans like novelty but don’t like change. It’s easy to confuse the two. When we say, “I need a change,” what
Three time NBA champion Stephen Curry has snapped up a Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible token (NFT) for 55 Ether worth around $206,000 at the time of publication. The Golden State Warriors star purchased an NFT depicting an ape with blue fur wearing a plaid suit on Aug. 28. Curry’s wallet on OpenSea shows a
In a previous study we conducted, we analyzed and identified the richest counties in the United States. in every state. Now, it’s time to look at the other end of the spectrum, namely, analyzing and identifying the poorest counties in the U.S. Using data from the U.S. Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey five-year estimates, we