Despite a weak first quarter, the economy is still doing pretty well. The jobs picture is looking good, meager pay raises are being scratched out by working class Americans and…
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The boiler rooms full of people selling penny stocks in movies like The Wolf of Wall Street might be history after a new set of rules governing the sale of…
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Along with American waistlines, American homes have gotten fatter. Even back in 2014, the size of the average American home ballooned to nearly 2,600 square feet and that average means…
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They’re called the “Panama Papers” a massive leak of confidential documents from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama specializing in untraceable offshore accounts. The document dump, consisting of over…
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If someone offered you a choice between a brand new 2016 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, nicely loaded, or picking up the tab for your upcoming wedding, which would be the better…
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No fooling, Americans are feeling more confident in the job market than anytime since the Great Recession. In March the U.S. added a robust 215,000 jobs, crushing expectations and raising…
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You can be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Reddit, a website that advertises itself as the front page of the internet. Trying to define Reddit is sort of like…
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When it comes to investing, it’s easier to fall into the hole than to dig your way out. That’s because when you lose money you have a smaller principal. The…
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Americans are unhappy and their biggest complaints are about the economy. That’s peculiar considering there is so much economic good news out there. Gas prices are at record lows that…
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The images were as vivid as they were visceral. Greeks rioting in the streets over draconian spending cuts being imposed by the European Union. The Greeks were staying in the…