You’ve probably heard it said that you can’t time markets. There’s definitely a lot of truth to that. Try to time when to get in and out of markets and you can second guess yourself into losing thousands of dollars. In many respects, trying to time markets is just gambling, not investing. But that’s not […]
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The raft of Federal Reserve actions to bail out Wall Street had many people thinking that we’re going back to the days of 2008, when big banks got bailed out while the little people were forced to suffer. Major banks received trillions of dollars worth of federal assistance to stay afloat, then turned around and […]
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Those who want to invest in cryptocurrencies often may not know how to go about doing so. There are undoubtedly many cryptocurrency investors who hit it big in the early days of cryptocurrencies just trading on standard exchanges such as Mt. Gox, keeping their assets in online wallets or stored at exchanges. In the early […]
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The early 20th century saw a number of small-caliber pistol cartridges developed, in an attempt to get better performance than the large, slow revolver and pistol cartridges that remained popular with many military and civilian shooters. While .30-caliber cartridges such as the 7.62x25mm Tokarev became popular in some areas, 9mm cartridges quickly became the most […]
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Back when it looked like Mike Bloomberg’s Presidential campaign was going to start gaining some traction due to his free-spending ways, Democrats (and Republicans) were doing their best to tear him down. Thankfully, there was no better way to do that than by quoting Bloomberg himself. The man has an ego larger than just about […]
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Social media giants have established new rules to flag what they consider to be “manipulated media” – deceptively edited pictures or videos. And guess who was the target of one of the first flagged pieces of manipulated media? That’s right, President Trump. While most people would think of photoshopped images or deep fake videos as […]
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The bad news just keeps getting worse and worse. After a 100-basis point rate cut and $700 billion in quantitative easing, the Federal Reserve has announced that it is opening up a new Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) to provide a bailout of commercial paper markets. The new special purpose vehicle (SPV) will purchase commercial […]
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You would think that with two months’ notice of the coronavirus, governments and health authorities would have already prepared for its arrival on our shores. But you’d be wrong. Everywhere you turn, you read stories of how governments and health authorities not only are unprepared, they’re actively doing things to make the crisis worse. We […]
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Another Fed move, another day of collapsing stock markets. The Federal Reserve on Sunday evening announced its third consecutive unscheduled monetary policy move, making a 100-basis point cut to its target federal funds rate, cutting to a level of 0.00-0.25%. So after only a couple of years in which interest rates never even got back […]
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Americans like to think of themselves as a free people. We enjoy freedom of religion, free speech, the right to bear arms, and other rights that billions of people around the world can only dream of exercising. Yet here we are, cowing like slaves to the demands of governments that are using the threat of […]
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