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The Paradox of the American Labor Movement

theatlantic.com Updated at 11:05 a.m. ET on April 18, 2024 Last year was widely hailed as a breakthrough for the American worker. Amid a historically hot labor market, the United Auto…

Maximizing Opportunity Amidst A Changing Global Economic Climate: Margex Analyst

bitcoinist.com Recession, war, rising inflation—history has shown that these conditions consistently reappear, and when they do, they signal a systematic change in the global economy. With…

Buying on margin: Here’s what that means and how it works

aol.com If you were to invest $10,000 in a good stock and get a 20 percent return, you’d make $2,000. But what if you could have borrowed another $10,000 to buy more stock and…

Predicting a Bear Market: 7 Signs and Why it's Tough to Do

marketbeat.com Are you trying to predict the next bear market? If so, you might want to consider the magnitude of the task first. Many millions have been lost predicting bear markets that…

Brace for the S&P 500 to crash 30% before an even bigger collapse after the election, markets guru David Brady warns

finance.yahoo.com None Expect the S&P 500 to tumble 30%, recover, then suffer a historic crash, David Brady warned. • None He predicted the Federal Reserve would shore up the market before…

Robert Solow was an intellectual giant

economist.com Ensconced in a lorry, hidden from the enemy by the brow of a hill, the young Robert Solow decoded the radio signals of Nazi platoons across Italy. “We were very, very good…

Navigating the Slippery Slope: How Hoover’s Interventions Paved the Way for the Great Depression

mises.org One of the great myths of US history is that Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire president. In truth, he intervened in the economy more than any of his predecessors, creating…

‘Man’s Castle’: Free Love, Hard Times

nytimes.com A celebrant of redemptive love, Frank Borzage (1893-1962) was the most romantic of classic Hollywood directors and, however unconventionally, perhaps the most religious as…

This S&P 500 Valuation Metric Is at the Third Highest Level Ever. Could Stocks Be Poised to Plunge?

finance.yahoo.com In books and movies, you know to watch out whenever everything is going great for the main character. There's always some disruption that throws things off balance.…

The tax horror stories keep piling up in New Jersey

newsweek.com A front-page story in USA Today last week was different than most: It took the form of a quiz. "Residents of this state pay $987,117 in lifetime taxes. Guess which one?"…

A Short History of Stocks

ritholtz.com Confused about where we are today? A favorite exercise is to go back to first principles to consider how we got to where we are. (That is a favorite way to find fresh…

Bitcoin vs. Executive Order 6102

tftc.io Ninety-one years ago - on April 5, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) issued Executive Order 6102 during the Great Depression. “All persons are required to…

If Trump wins, he plans to free Wall Street from 'burdensome regulations'

japantimes.co.jp A second Donald Trump White House would seek to sharply reduce the power of U.S. financial regulators, according to a review of public documents and interviews with people…

The Fed is determined not to reduce interest rates too soon, experts say

cnbc.com "The risks of allowing inflation to persist still far outweighs the risk of triggering a recession," Mark Higgins, senior vice president at Index Fund Advisors and author of…

Quorum Federal Credit Union Celebrates 90-Year Anniversary

benzinga.com Online Credit Union reflects on its beginnings and how it has evolved. PURCHASE, N.Y., April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Quorum Federal Credit Union, a forward-thinking,…

“Bidenvilles”: Where Parking Lots Are All Americans Can Afford

tftc.io When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President…

A Stock Market Crash Is Entirely Possible

247wallst.com The “Buy the Dip” financial news teleprompter readers and the 30-year-old portfolio managers who have never seen a market crash are pounding the table that stocks are going…

So why do we care about the stock market?

sherwood.news If you read business news, you hear it constantly. • None “The S&P 500 has been on a tear since Nov. 1, rallying some 20% on the back of strong earnings, economic optimism,…

VIRGINIA SENATOR TIM KAINE RELEASES NEW BOOK, WALK RIDE PADDLE: A LIFE OUTSIDE, WITH HARPER HORIZON

benzinga.com NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Harper Horizon releases Walk Ride Paddle: A Life Outside from Tim Kaine. The Virginia Senator and former Democratic…

US Latinos fear new mass deportations may target all Hispanics

axios.com More than half of U.S. Latino adults worry any new mass deportations would target all Latinos regardless of legal status, a new Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll in partnership with…

Yellen and Biden Administration Incompetence: Bullying and Entitlement, Rather Than Making a Case, Here Regarding China Overproduction

nakedcapitalism.com The Chinese commenting Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s improved chopstick skills during her recent visit has taken damning with faint praise to a new level. To let the cat…

Some of the rules that protect wealthy savers' bank deposits just changed. Here's what to know

cnbc.com If you have more than $250,000 in deposits at a bank, you may want to check that all of your money is insured by the federal government. The Federal Insurance Deposit…

Column: More than just a store, 99 Cents Only gave a fair shake to all who entered

latimes.com Axel Madrid, 5, rests his head on a shopping cart as his father, David Madrid, makes purchases at a 99 Cents Only store in Gardena. The discount chain has announced that it…

Nerd world's most famous faces are out to conquer the gothic horror gaming space

aol.com None At the helm of the game's new live-play iteration is main cast member Liam O'Brien. • None Critical Role also continues to roll out content — including their new game,…

How Do Solar Eclipses Affect the Stock Market?

investorplace.com Stocks have climbed in 10 of the last 13 solar eclipse years Investors and astronomy fans alike are in high spirits to start the week ahead of a total solar eclipse set for…

U.S. Money Supply Is Doing Something No One Has Witnessed Since the Great Depression, and It Foreshadows a Big Move to Come in Stocks

finance.yahoo.com When examined over long stretches, the stock market can't be beat. While other asset classes have produced solid nominal gains for investors, including gold, oil, housing,…