Month: November 2021

Ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families are attracted to the over-the-top luxury lifestyles that private residences and penthouses offer. These amenity-rich properties around the world cater to indulgences and are often second, third, or even fourth homes rounding out one’s real estate portfolio. Here’s a look at some of the top private residences and deluxe penthouses on
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Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about spousal benefit rate reductions when taken before full retirement age, requesting benefit recalculation to ensure accuracy and potential effects of early retirement benefits on later survivor’s benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning, Inc. See
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(Kitco News) Gold fell below the $1,800 an ounce level again, shedding nearly $40 as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. The price of the yellow metal moved down when Powell spoke about a more aggressive tapering and more problematic inflation, sounding more hawkish
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“… stock market cap to GDP ratio peaks over the past 120 years have always been followed by a higher gold price. After the…”  by Jan Nieuwenhuijs via The Gold Observer Averaging stock market capitalization to GDP ratios from seventeen developed economies over the past 150 years reveals the world has never witnessed an equity
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Wondering how to become a millionaire? It may sound impossible to some people, but it doesn’t have to be an out-of-reach pipe dream. With careful planning, patience, and smart savings, you can easily make a million dollars by the time you retire. Key Takeaways If you want to become a millionaire, the most important thing
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Whenever someone says “hot chocolate”, two images spring to my mind. One is the drink of my childhood, piled high with marshmallows. The other is a tiny cup of weapons-grade chocolate I once had at the Granja M Viader café in Barcelona – so dark and thick you could, pretty much literally, stand a spoon
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Companies in the Materials sector have received a lot of coverage today as analysts weigh in on WestRock (WRK – Research Report), Berry Global Group (BERY – Research Report) and MAG Silver (MAG – Research Report). WestRock (WRK) In a report issued on November 28, Gabrial Hajde from Wells Fargo reiterated a Buy rating on
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In this article FB SEDG PFE DLTR REGN MRNA Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) — Regeneron shares fell more than 1% in the premarket after the company said its Covid-19 antibody cocktail and similar drugs could be less effective against the omicron Covid variant. The drugmaker said mutations
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Sharing is Caring! by confoundedinterest17 The latest scare hitting financial markets is the Omicron Variant (or Oh! Macron! Variant in France). While it caused an initial decline in global equity markets {Dow fell 900 points on early reports on Omicron), the Treasury market has been relatively unscathed. For example, the US Treasury Actives curve dropped last
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As 2021 nears its end, the firm Harpercollins, the publisher behind the printed and online Collins English Dictionary, has revealed “The Collins Word of the Year.” According to collinsdictionary.com, the word of the year is the abbreviation for non-fungible token, otherwise known as “NFT.” Collins English Dictionary Word of the Year Is NFT Non-fungible token
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Some pundits have suggested that the way to cope with higher prices and reduced availability of goods is for people to “lower their expectations.” These pundits have unwittingly… by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Inflation was an unwelcome guest at this year’s Thanksgiving gatherings. According to the Farm Bureau, a
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Selling (also called writing) a put option allows an investor to potentially own the underlying security at a future date and at a more favorable price. In other words, the sale of put options allows market players to gain bullish exposure, with the added benefit of potentially owning the underlying security at a future date and at a
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A former Edward Jones advisor accused of stealing nearly $800,000 from three elderly clients to cover his personal expenses has been indicted on federal fraud charges. Ronald T. Molo, 61, has been charged with six counts of wire fraud in the U.S. District Court in Chicago for a scheme he allegedly carried out from January
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Sharing is Caring! Via Birch Gold Sometimes Congress doesn’t need to pass tax legislation directly. Sometimes it tries to tax retirement savers indirectly. That’s a polite way of saying, picking our pockets… That’s the case with the legislation now known as “Build Back Better Bill.” As is usually the case, the current version of the bill is loaded with
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