(Before we proceed, we remind you that this blog is for educational purposes only and we’re not recommending options trading for all readers; we’re simply providing basic options trading information. Consult your financial advisor before starting options trading.) Equities boomed last year. A positive year was expected by many, although the extent of the upside […]
Just when we thought we had our heads around cryptocurrency, the geniuses who cooked it up came out with some new twists. You don’t need to go anywhere near Bitcoin or Ethereum or Ripple to speculate about blockchains. There’s a whole host of other digital assets you can now make or lose a fortune on. […]
Notoriously the word inflation is known for creating chaotic discourse and crazy predictions of massive economic catastrophes. Some of it is true—prices for a lot of goods are in fact spiking, and this can certainly have negative effects on the overall economy. Also true is the fact the government “created” $11.8 trillion since the pandemic […]
Months into the budget battle – we used to say “budget process” – America is still waiting for answers about how the impacts of government spending will affect their daily lives. The less partisan – we used to say “bi-partisan” – $1.2 trillion hard infrastructure plan has now been signed into law. But then there’s […]
If you are at or approaching retirement age, today you live in a different reality than the one you were born into. When you came into this world, there was a fear that someday you could become burden to your own children, but it was only a remote possibility. Life expectancy was shorter, and thus […]
Imagine being a teacher who receives an email that appears to be from the school principal requesting the signature of a time-sensitive document. Acknowledging the urgency of the email, you immediately open the attachment and inadvertently download malicious software to your school computer. With one click you have initiated a chain of events that leads […]
It is 1982. The Home Shopping Club – later Home Shopping Network – pops up on cable TV across the U.S. A shudder runs down the spines of America’s retailers. It is 1995. Two new internet companies, Amazon and eBay, introduce e-commerce to a broad swath of consumers. This is bound to sink in-person sales. […]
Hard to believe, but it’s been almost 40 years since a major antitrust action succeeded in U.S. courts. American Telephone & Telegraph had been considered a “natural” monopoly. A straight line could be drawn from inventor Alexander Graham Bell’s American Bell Telephone Co. of the 1880s to the behemoth AT&T had become by the mid-20th […]
We’ve wanted to do this one for a long time – about a year. Where did that year go? What could possibly have been so important that talking about cool cars seemed like too idle a pursuit? It escapes us now. Anyway … It’s no exaggeration to describe America’s relationship with the automobile as a […]
Many of us are, as of this writing, furiously rushing to finish up our tax filings and swearing on all we hold sacred that next year we’re going to get an earlier start. If that describes you, then just dialing down your anxiety level would be reward enough. But if you start early enough – […]
