Unlike generations before them, millennials have accumulated far less wealth at an early stage of life. Part of that is a mindset that values consumption over saving, and part is …
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Stock markets went on a tear two years ago and haven’t really looked back yet. From a low of less than 16,000 points in February 2016, the Dow Jones reached …
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Never heard of Vertcoin? You aren’t the first, but this new cryptocurrency is a potential sleeper altcoin of 2018 that small dollar investors might be looking for. Vertcoin is ranked …
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It’s a discouraging figure, but one that probably isn’t altogether surprising: nearly half of Americans will be broke, or close to it, by the time they retire. Nearly 14% of …
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In a pointed critique of his foreign critics, President Trump pointed out their hypocrisy on the issue of trade. Near the conclusion of trade talks at last week’s G7 meeting, …
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In 1871, Carl Menger published his Principles of Economics, in which he argued that economic analysis has universal principles and that the individual and the individual’s choices are the acceptable …
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College was rough already financially, but how little did I know just how expensive the “real world” would be once I went from being a happy-go-lucky recent graduate to now …
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Conservatives and President Trump were hoping to pass massive repeals of parts of the Dodd-Frank banking law, but the final product Congress is sending to the President’s desk turned out …
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Many Americans are all too familiar with the rising cost of housing, including rent. The cost of housing has far outstripped the rise in incomes over the past several years, …
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Many people are familiar with the federal government’s definition of the poverty level, the level at which a family is defined as being poor. For 2018, an individual with an …