Month: July 2019

Tax reform and gun control both arouse passionate dispute. That is one thing that they have in common.  Another thing that they have in common is a kind of knowledge imbalance between people arguing opposite sides.  The knowledge imbalance might be, in part, a result of the passion.  People resistant to gun control, on the
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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA in 2004. Epstein is connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty Images Victoria’s Secret owner, L Brands, has hired outside counsel to review the company’s relationship with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
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Source: Betterment Regulators have asked online wealth advisor Betterment to clarify some details surrounding its new checking and savings accounts just hours after they were launched. The digital wealth-management start-up unveiled new accounts that offer as much as a 2.69% annual yield. But Betterment was asked to provide more specifics to one of its regulators
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Searching for decent retirement income in a world of super-low to negative interest rates has become a real challenge. With central banks the world over – including the newly flip-flopping Fed – signaling renewed monetary softness and an extended period of surreally low rates, a good return is hard to find. Gosh, these days even
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Initial Public Offering Getty The number of REIT initial public offerings, or IPOs, has certainly fallen from the good old days. In 2013, for instance, there were 19 of them in all. In 2017, however, there were nine REIT IPOs that, together, raised around $2.9 billion in gross proceeds. For 2018, that number dropped down
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Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff (C) arrives at a US Federal Court on March 12, 2009 in New York. Photo credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images Getty Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff has been in prison over 10 years (time flies) but still has another 140 years to go. He’s now asked President Trump, who has
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Shares of Caterpillar plunged after the company posted disappointing second-quarter results as higher material costs including tariffs and lower demand in China made a dent in its profit. Caterpillar earned $2.83 per share in the second quarter, versus consensus estimate of $3.12 per share, according to Refinitiv. Revenue also disappointed with $14.432 billion reported compared
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