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If you had invested just $100 when Bitcoin first traded publicly, and you held it through all the big ups and downs, you’d have more than $90 million today. Could you invest $100 in Bitcoin...
We’re exactly three months into the new year and money continues to saturate the stock market. And, due to the stimulus payments from Congress and monetary policy from central banks, we can expect...
Wow! My Feb. 26 column about a conversation with one of my successful college buddies touched a lot of hot buttons. If you haven’t read it, I recommend you do; here’s the setup:   “Tony,” he...
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) deposited around 90 million stimulus payments. So many people saw their stimulus deposit hit last Wednesday that the Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC)...
What would Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen say if he were alive today? Considering the size, scope and costs of the Biden administration’s spending plans, we can surely imagine. Dirksen, of...
Two weeks ago, Jon Markman wrote the article “Digital Transformation of Industry and Finance Is Just Starting” for his Pivotal Point readers. The Nasdaq Composite had already bounced back from a...
Martin here with an early warning: The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds has just doubled in the last eight months. It was 1.18% on Aug. 4 of last year; now, it’s 2.45%. A...
Financial Anchor Jessica Borg is working on a longer-term assignment this week, which gives us an opportunity to take a look back at our recent video coverage of one of the most important trends...
My sons keep buying wacky things — cryptocurrency coins I’ve never heard of, Reddit-touted “value” stocks and some “non-fungible tokens” — and making huge profits on them. In fact, they’re...
I read a lot of financial news ... or at least a lot of financial news headlines. I remember last year, headlines about gold reaching a 10-year high were everywhere, along with speculation about...