Sharing is Caring! Guest Post by Jeff Thomas via International Man Today, more than at any time previously, Westerners are justifying a move toward collectivist thinking with the phrase, “Capitalism has failed.” In response to this, conservative thinkers offer a knee-jerk reaction that collectivism has also had a dismal record of performance. Neither group tends to
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Samsung Electronics America announced Monday at the CES Tech Conference in Las Vegas its partnership with veritree, a blockchain-based climate solutions platform, to plant two million mangrove trees in Madagascar over the next three months. veritree uses blockchain technology to manage the reforestation process and verify each tree that is planted. The tree-planting initiative is
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U.S. inflation is red hot and a number of analysts and economists are predicting America will face further economic issues as politicians and the Biden administration blame corporations. This perspective on rising inflation has led finance authors like Isabella Weber to believe that price controls could ease America’s economic burdens. Biden Administration Blames Inflation on
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FactSet has reached a deal with S&P Global to buy CUSIP Global Services for $1.925 billion in cash, helping expand its role in the global capital markets and advancing its open data strategy. FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information and analytical solutions located in Norwalk, Connecticut, will become the CUSIP system’s second operator
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“…better earnings for producers and more choices and affordable prices for consumers…” ***** Half Dollar‘s Note: Thinking people may want to check out a recent Silver Doctors podcast with a Kansas Wheat Farmer. ***** A January 3, 2022 Biden Administration FACT SHEET, pasted in its entirety below and presented with no further comment (from whitehouse.gov):
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As of today, January 3, 2022, the 10-year fixed mortgage rate is 2.54%, 10/1 ARM is 2.46% and 10/6 ARM is 4.06%. These rates are not the teaser rates you may see advertised online and based on our methodology should be more representative of what customers could expect to be quoted depending on their qualifications.
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The Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) has successfully completed its first central bank digital currency (CBDC), targeting a national rollout in the first quarter of 2022. After proceeding with initial CBDC prototype testing in March 2021, Jamaica’s central bank finished an eight-month-long pilot last Friday, the Jamaica Information Service reported. As part of the pilot, the
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The Comex gold price is still coiling in a tight range, indicating a contraction in volatility. After a subdued trend in the early part of December, both gold and silver managed to edge up in the second half. Precious metals however lost their sheen in the year 2021 with Comex gold recording its worst yearly
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My previous blog documented California’s 2020 population loss, the first time that’s happened since the state was founded.  Billionaire Elon Musk has moved to Texas, but the biggest worry for the state is the loss of lower and middle-income residents, likely driven by California’s high housing costs.  The state must fix its housing affordability problem for a more
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A finance professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has warned about inflation and the Fed hiking rates many more times than the market expects. He also said that bitcoin has become the new gold for the millennials. Finance Professor on Bitcoin and Inflation Wharton’s finance professor Jeremy Siegel shared his outlook
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In the good old days, Social Security was tax-free. But times have changed, and now many taxpayers can expect to see at least a portion of their Social Security income make its way onto the taxable income line of their 1040s. People who convert their traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs often fall into this hidden
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