Thinking about becoming a real estate agent? You’re in good company. Every month, about 17,000 people in the U.S. Google “how to become a real estate agent,” as they consider joining the nation’s estimated 3 million active real estate licensees. Key Takeaways You can become a real estate agent in about four to six months,
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The once notoriously opaque municipal bond market has experienced many changes that have improved disclosure over the years. Among those was the creation of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA website where issuers have posted bond and disclosure documents since 2009. Improved disclosure in the market is due largely to people, like Mary Colby, who
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s defense industrial base and said the United States, the UK, Canada, and Japan will ban imports of Russian gold… by David Morgan of The Morgan Report The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s defense industrial base and said the United States — along with
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What Was the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)? One of the major features of digital currencies is that they are decentralized. This means they are not controlled by a single institution like a government or central bank, but instead are divided among a variety of computers, networks, and nodes. In many cases, virtual currencies make use
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Historic row houses in Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington. amedved | iStock | Getty Images Million-dollar homes aren’t common in the U.S., but you’re more likely to find these properties along the coasts. That’s according to a LendingTree study that ranked the country’s 50 biggest metropolitan areas by the share of owner-occupied properties worth $1
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Tax-loss harvesting (TLH) is a strategy to lower current taxes paid to the U.S. federal government by deliberately selling an investment at a loss—i.e., deliberately taking a capital loss—in order to use that loss to offset taxes owed on an investment sold at a profit—i.e., a capital gain—or even taxes owed on personal income. The
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Sequoia Capital China is close to raising nearly $9bn to put into Chinese start-ups, defying global investor apprehension about Beijing’s zero-Covid policies, a crackdown on technology groups and heightened geopolitical risk. The fundraising haul, which two people familiar with the matter put at between $8bn to $9bn for four separate funds, will allow China’s premier
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This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. Specification: Market failure, asymmetric information, allocative efficiency Click to read the article below and then answer the questions: Would carbon food labels change the way you shop? Explain what is meant by market failure Explain
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