PeopleImages | Getty Images In a sizzling housing market, some military families using VA loans are struggling to buy homes, real estate experts say. VA loans, mortgages partly guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, financed 14% of home purchases from July 2019 to June 2020, according to the National Association of Realtors. The
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Between preparing to host family and friends for Thanksgiving and making gift lists and checking them twice, the whirlwind of activities during the busy holiday season can feel more like a blast of arctic air than a hint of festive cheer. Kitchens are put through the ultimate stress test on Thanksgiving, with every appliance and
Sotheby’s, the British-founded American luxury auction house, has announced the company will be selling Banksy works for real-time bids in ethereum at “The Now Evening Auction” on November 18. While the upcoming auction will have pieces from highly acclaimed artists such as Mark Bradford and Yoshitomo Nara, Banksy’s “Love in the Air” and “Trolley Hunters”
A federal judge in Michigan signed off on a $626.25 million settlement that resolves litigation over the state’s role in the Flint water contamination crisis, closing one chapter of the debacle as legal cases proceed on other tracks against former state officials and bond underwriters. The state sold $603 million of taxable bonds in June
Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about whether waiting till 70 is always the best strategy, how the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset can reduce benefit amounts and whether to take survivor’s benefits or retirement benefits first. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
Fiat currencies are relatively new in the history of of humanity, but gold and silver have been around throughout time. Silver often gets overlooked, despite being a store of value like gold as well as an industrial metal with many uses. Here are the top ten reasons to own silver, per a brochure from Sprott
Gold is back above $1,850 per ounce again, and we are getting more data that… by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St Gold is back above $1,850/oz again and we are getting more data that central banks in Russia and India are buying more gold. FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE Commit to
The yield comes from the staking of the city’s own cryptocurrency, MiamiCoin, which was introduced early this year and has already earned over $21 million in the past three months for Miami. Suarez noted that if you were to annualize that revenue, it would equal roughly one-fifth of Miami’s total annual tax revenue of $400 million.
Since Meta (FB), formerly Facebook, launched its social network in 2004, its features have expanded significantly. The vision of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, began as a way to take the social dynamics of a college campus and put them online. Key Takeaways Sending money through Facebook is simple: users simply need to enter a debit
Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images A McKinsey partner was arrested Wednesday after being criminally charged with insider trading ahead of Goldman Sachs‘ recent $2.2 billion acquisition of fintech lender GreenSky. A complaint unsealed Wednesday in federal court alleged that Puneet Dikshit, 40, exploited information he gained about his client Goldman Sachs’ pending takeover
Alexander Lukashenko has threatened to cut the transit of gas and goods through Belarus to Europe if the EU imposes further sanctions on his regime over the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border. The Belarus president was responding to an announcement by Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, on Wednesday that the bloc would
When tussling with his record company in the 1990s, Prince famously wrote “slave” on his face and declared: “If you don’t own your masters, they own you”. As he sought to gain control of his work, he threatened to make a new copy of his “masters”, or original song recordings, among other tactics. It took
As clients clamor for investments dubbed socially responsible, regulators are closing in on how the widely used environmental, social and governance (ESG) moniker is bestowed and deployed. It’s an urgent challenge. This year, the SEC cautioned companies and funds that tout their ESG practices and labels. As the wealth management industry talks up the benefits
Sharing is Caring! by confoundedinterest17 The Shadow Knows! Wu-Xia employs an approximation that makes a nonlinear term structure model extremely tractable for analysis of an economy operating near the zero lower bound for interest rates. It can be used to summarize the macroeconomic effects of unconventional monetary policy (ZIRP + QE). The Shadow Rate is now
In this article RIVN BYND SOFI AFRM MQ TSLA Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Tesla (TSLA) — Shares of Tesla got a roughly 2% boost after CEO Elon Musk sold about $5 billion worth of shares this week, according to financial filings submitted Wednesday. He still holds more than 166 million
United States crypto exchange FTX US registered a large uptick in trading volumes and investor activity during the third quarter, underscoring heightened retail appetite for digital assets amid the volat bull market. FTX US saw average daily volume grow 512% for the quarter ending in September, with peak volumes hitting $807 million on Sept. 7,
Craftsman homes from the early 20th century are a revered part of California’s architectural history. Examples of the domestic style, which grew out of the international Arts and Crafts movement, can be found throughout the L.A. area. Built about 1912, this wood-framed Craftsman in Santa Monica has the distinction of being a contributing structure to
Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images For Stacey Foley, refinancing her mortgage was a no-brainer. After paying roughly 4.25% in interest on her existing home loan, refinancing at 3.25% with limited closing costs has saved her $200 monthly. “Two hundred dollars doesn’t sound like a lot of money, but over a year it
press release PRESS RELEASE. MetaWars, a space-themed play-to-earn blockchain game utilising high-tech NFTs, is looking forward to a very bright future following a successful token launch. The game, in which players will take the role of pilots in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic 50th century space war, will utilise special NFTs, its native token, as well as
Older women are significantly more concerned about the impact of taking care of their physical health will have on their financial health, according to a new survey from MedicareGuide.com, an insurance company. In a poll, over half of women over 65 (51 percent) say they are worried a health situation could lead to bankruptcy compared
States would enjoy more private activity bond volume flexibility under an affordable housing provision in the Build Back Better bill. The legislation would reduce the so-called financing test for tax-exempt private activity bonds to 25% from 50%. Lowering the threshold would free up states’ private activity volume for more affordable housing, or any other projects
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Tensions are high across the globe with chaos being orchestrated and a rush to… by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The biggest attempt to enter Poland is underway. A “massive” wave of migrants has reached Poland’s border from Belarus, with the country’s special services describing it as the largest-ever attempt to enter the country by force.
A caveat is that 16% of sales were chalked up to creators of “unknown” gender – hence the “at least.” Another caveat is that the study neglects to say how many NFT artists are women. Art Tactic arrived at these percentages by looking at total sales, but a look at the ratio of the amount
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The “Paycheck Protection Program,” created as part of the CARES Act, began accepting applications for small businesses loans of up to $10 million at a 1% fixed interest rate on April 3, 2020. The third coronavirus stimulus bill allocated $349 billion for this purpose. The SBA stopped accepting PPP loan applications on May 31, 2021.
[The webcast is scheduled to begin at 4:45 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the player above.] Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station from Florida on Wednesday, as the company keeps up a steady pace of crewed missions. Known as Crew-3, the
ArcelorMittal has reported its highest quarterly profit since 2008 as the boom in steel prices helped the world’s largest producer shrug off weaker demand from carmakers. The Luxembourg-based group made profits of $6.1bn in the third quarter, 19.9 per cent higher than in the second quarter, its previous record since 2008, although slightly below analysts’
With the clock ticking to the end of the Glasgow COP26 climate summit, a key element remains unresolved: the rules for global carbon markets that experts believe are critical to cutting the emissions behind climate change. The so-called “Article 6” rules have been outstanding for years, a subject of fierce debate and a contributor to
A brokerage firm accused of churning client accounts and years of supervisory failures has settled with FINRA to the tune of $2.8 million. FINRA announced Tuesday it had sanctioned Aegis Capital, a New York-based firm with 300 registered representatives in its 23 branch offices, in a case involving allegedly excessive and unsuitable trading in customer