By Steve Selengut | August 30, 2018 Several years ago, while fielding questions at an AAII (American Association of Individual Investors) meeting in Northeast NJ, a comparison was made between a professionally directed “Market Cycle Investment Management” (MCIM) portfolio and any of several “High Dividend Select” equity ETFs. My response was: what’s better for retirement… Read More »
By Erik Gordon | August 28, 2018 Elon Musk shocked the world – including his own car company’s board – on Aug. 7 when he tweeted that he had the “funding secured” to take Tesla private. A little more than two weeks of uncertainty, confusion and a wildly fluctuating stock price later, the billionaire entrepreneur… Read More »
The national flags of Canada, from left, the U.S. and Mexico, are lit by stage lights before a news conference at the start of North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations in Washington. But Canada’s status is now unsure after the U.S. and Mexico announced progress on a bilateral deal. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Drew Fagan |… Read More »
By Greg Williams | August 28, 2018 “Wow! That was a fantastic negotiation! It’s almost like you had him dancing on a string. How did you learn to become such a powerful negotiator?” Those were the admiring sentiments bestowed on a senior member of a negotiation team by his junior. Do you know how to be… Read More »
By Daniel Joelson | August 20, 2018 Emergency financial situations can happen to anybody and any financial arrangement exercise is not ideal without planning for such occasions. The whole idea of having an emergency fund is to offer a cushion against any unexpected expense. This will ensure it does not have any negative impact on… Read More »
By Brian Lucey and Shaen Corbet| August 17, 2018 The rollercoaster of cryptocurrency pricing is on the downward slope again. Bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in the past month, with other large currencies such as Ethereum and Ripple down more than 40%. So where does this latest bout of losses leave cryptocurrencies? Sceptics point to… Read More »
By Richard Holden, UNSW | August 16, 2018 As American baseball legend Yogi Berra once supposedly quipped, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Three years ago the crisis was in Greece, now it’s Turkey. Another European summer and another European economic crisis. It’s tempting to say that being in Europe is all the two situations… Read More »
(NewsUSA) | August 15, 2018 As back-to-school time sets in, personal finance becomes more complicated for many families. Some have students away from home for the first time, others have expenses for tuition, and of course the many purchases associated with the start of school: backpacks, lunch bags, clothes, books, dorm room furnishings, not to mention… Read More »
By Kevin Judge | August 12, 2018 Now that New Jersey has legalized sports betting, what will happen to your friendly neighborhood bookie? The so called “numbers rackets”, illegal lotteries , was once a cash cow for organized crime but were driven out of business by State lotteries. As government blessed sportsbook spreads across the… Read More »