Acampora cited a break down of so-called FANG stocks--a quartet of technology and internet-related companies that include Facebook Inc. FB, +0.16% Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.12% Netflix Inc. NFLX, +5.59% and Google-parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,...
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Despite an unemployment rate that has reached a 50-year low of 3.7 percent, most jobs across the U.S. don't support a middle-class or better lifestyle, leaving many Americans struggling, according to a new study.
Sixty-two percent of jobs fall...
Five Reasons Why Stocks Have Fallen If the market’s recent dive led you to buy or sell, you’re doing this investing business wrong. Bloomberg, October 31, 2018 A few weeks ago, we discussed...
Texas Judge Orders Dan Gilbert's Amrock Title To Pay $740 million to HouseCanary In Software Stealing Case
What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle An initial study said the increase to $15 would cost workers jobs and hours. That didn’t happen. Bloomberg, October 24, 2018 The dire warnings...
Happy Halloween! My morning train reads: • A Top or The Top? (Irrelevant Investor) • Paul Volcker’s Guide to the Almighty Dollar (The Atlantic) see also Volcker Recalls Another Time the Fed...
All of Trump’s Stock Market Tweets in One Chart Source: Bloomberg
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The desire to improve our social standing is natural. What's unnatural is the toxicity of doing so through social media.
It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound...
``The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, was first reported by The New York Times. It alleges that Trump and three of his adult children -- Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump...
One week from today the mid-term elections take place. In many areas, especially those controlled by GOP Governors/State legislators, it is increasingly difficult to vote. An extraordinary...
What do you do when a phone call comes in out of the blue asking you to restructure AIG — right after the government “lent” them $182 billion dollars to bail out the company? If you are Jim...
Massachusetts Mortgage Fraudster Joseph Bates Pleads Guilty To Operating A $4.3 Million Scam For Almost A Decade
In actions never before made public, Obama administration regulators prevented the bank from opening branches in new states as punishment for violating banking rules, according to people familiar with the matter. JPMorgan's ambitious plan to...
Don’t get distracted by the latest Trump Birthright nonsense. That was the takeaway from my long conversation with Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. (future MIB will be here in 2 weeks or so)....
The Massachusetts Courts Have Given The Green Light To A New FHA Foreclosure Defense Strategy
My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle (The Verge) see also Governors & Mayors, America’s Biggest Suckers! (Bloomberg) • Active funds suffer...
Facebook’s earnings are today after the close. ReCode asks the simple question, “Is Facebook still growing?” “After months of bad news, Facebook unveiled its second quarter earnings back in July...
People betting against once-beloved technology giants made $1.6 billion in paper profit last week, according to data from S3 Partners. So-called FAANG stocks, including Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google's Alphabet, fell 4.7 percent...
The transcript from this week’s MIB: Jim Millstein, AIG Restructurer, is below. You can stream/download the full conversation, including the podcast extras on iTunes, Bloomberg, Overcast,...
How to Debate Finance Without Being a Jerk A few rules can help prevent financial discussions from becoming as overheated and useless as our political exchanges. Bloomberg, October 29, 2018. ...
Within the bounds of the law, net neutrality principles dictate that any internet user should be able to access Gab and upload garbage to it if they so please. Those are rights.
But that's probably where the list of rights ends. Hosting a...
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