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The stock market’s taking a hit today — especially in the Dow, off more than 800 points in midday trading. Big institutions are worried about the COVID-19 Delta variant, what it could do to...
Like a monster from an old creature feature, an ugly beast once again looms over Wall Street. I’m talking about inflation. And if I needed any more confirmation, this week’s consumer price...
Longtime readers know I was raised on a vegetable farm in Western Washington. Like all farmers, my father worked like a madman with purpose. What I mean is he worked like a madman because that’s...
Have you ever wondered who the largest money manager in the world is? Spoiler: It’s BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). The company now has approximately $9.5 trillion under management. For the first...
The “Money Flood” is a massive wave of cheap liquidity and abundant stimulus, the likes of which we’ve never seen. I’ve said over and over that it’s pointless to fight it. Your best bet is to go...
It can be hard for many (and impossible for others) to discern a viable trend amid the kind of chop (and the noise) we’ve experienced lately in equity markets. For some, like my colleague Sean...
Three years ago, we turned the crypto world upside down when we released the world’s first ratings of cryptocurrencies. Now, we’re about to do something even bigger. But before we go public...
A single word has garnered a ton of attention lately: “transitory.” It’s how the Federal Reserve characterizes rising asset prices in industries across the board. But not all economists agree...
Here’s a sad fact: According to the Federal Reserve, one in four Americans has nothing saved for retirement — zilch, zip, nada. It’s another bad situation made worse by the coronavirus pandemic...
For as long as the stock market has existed, investors have been profiting from advances in technology. The past year has created an acceleration in many of the tech trends that investors had been...