China’s digital yuan, perhaps the largest and most important government-backed cryptocurrency project to date, was supposed to launch early this year. Development had been delayed this year, but earlier in January the Chinese central bank stated that its design process, standard-setting, and testing were rapidly nearing completion. But now that many areas of China are […]
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Every American dreams of retiring someday. But retiring, and particularly retiring in comfort, isn’t something that just happens by chance. Preparing for retirement requires careful and meticulous planning, goal-setting, and dedication to the plans you have laid out for yourself. If preparing for retirement were easy, no one would have to fret about it. But […]
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Conventional investing wisdom for the past several decades has posited that stocks are the best asset to invest in if you want to make the most investment gains; bonds are the best asset to diversify your portfolio, while still allowing for gains; and gold is the best asset for protecting wealth while avoiding losses and […]
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After more than two years of Brexit negotiations, Boris Johnson officially signed the European Union withdrawal agreement on January 24. The UK will officially leave the EU at midnight central European time on January 31. According to The Guardian, the final document includes agreements on citizens’ rights, the UK’s £33bn worth of financial obligations to […]
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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held its first meeting of the year this week, and it was slightly more dovish than many people expected. Still, it wasn’t enough to keep stock markets from plummeting, as renewed fears of the Chinese coronavirus are weighing heavily on world markets. While markets had looked earlier in the […]
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The .38 Special is one of the oldest handgun cartridges still in common use, and perhaps the only one that originated as a blackpowder loading to remain in use as an everyday self defense cartridge. The .38 Special was originally developed as an improvement on the .38 Long Colt, at the time a standard handgun […]
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When Bitcoin was first created and released to the public, its intended use was as a currency to use in everyday transactions at the point of sale. But while the novelty of using Bitcoin to purchase a bottle of water appealed to some people, many others wondered what Bitcoin could do that cash and credit […]
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“Some people did something” that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to know more about. As much as she may want to hide it, Minnesota Congressman Ilhan Omar’s possible felonies committed between 2009 and 2017 are being reviewed by the FBI. Since first being presented possible evidence by Minnesota state Rep. Steve Drazkowski, the […]
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just recently published its projections on US government spending over the next decade, and the document is a doozy. CBO expects the federal deficit to reach $1 trillion this year, and to average $1.3 trillion between now and 2030. The total debt held by the public is expected to reach […]
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With six confirmed cases of coronavirus in Hong Kong, the government there is determined to nip the looming health crisis in the bud. Travel from the Chinese mainland has already been cut off, and the government is taking measures to limit the effects of the virus. But some of its actions are angering Hong Kong’s […]
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