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By Mandeep Rai On August 9, 201707:00 AM Eastern
This market has a lot going for it: Earnings growth so far has been strong, global growth is re-emerging, and fiscal policy could (eventually) help. Let’s also not forget, there aren’t many other...
By Remi Lukosiunas On August 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Banks aren’t created to provide you with free financial services. They’re here to make money just like any other business. In fact, the U.S. banking industry netted $160.5 billion last year and...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Big Blue. It’s supposed to be the best of blue-chip stocks. It’s not.
The latest financial results for International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have arrived. And they are dismal, again. Mark...
By Gavin Magor On August 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The healthcare reform debate keeps raging in Washington. But two trends are clear from our unbiased analysis of data from more than 1,600 individual health insurance companies: The number of...
By Mandeep Rai On August 2, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Politicians keep cooking up plans to boost the economy’s growth rate. But what’s so bad about 2% growth? According to my work, “Nothing!”
We just got the second-quarter GDP report, and it showed...
By Remi Lukosiunas On August 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Dodd-Frank Act – Three words that make the financial industry cringe. Banks, credit unions, and the big dogs on Wall Street have been struggling to keep up with the law, and fighting it on...
By Jon D. Markman On July 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Quantum physics and tiny satellites hundreds of miles above Earth will form the basis of the next leap in global communications.
“Quantum communications.” That’s what scientists call this...
By Gavin Magor On July 27, 201707:00 AM Eastern
As you may know, buying life insurance is one of the easiest activities to procrastinate over. Most people must go through some life-altering event before they’re even willing to talk about life...
By Mandeep Rai On July 26, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If there are two major things we learned during the epic, 70%-plus crash in oil prices between 2014 and 2016, it’s that …
1. The market as a whole can continue on its merry way even when an...
By Remi Lukosiunas On July 25, 201707:00 AM Eastern
A couple of days ago, someone came up to me and asked a really interesting question: “What do credit unions do with their money? They’re not-for-profit organizations, so what happens with the...