Retail banking giant Wells Fargo was hit with a major fine from federal regulators last week. The total fine was $1 billion, $500 million each from the Consumer Financial Protection…
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Imagine you’re a dictatorial South American leader. You’ve printed so much money that it’s absolutely worthless and won’t buy anything. If that weren’t bad enough, you decided to implement price…
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If you’ve dragged your feet on filing your taxes, here’s some good news: the IRS has extended the tax filing deadline this year to April 18th, an extension of one…
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The past few decades have seen an enormous appreciation in the price of housing in the United States. Periodic pin pricks that have burst the housing bubble at times have…
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Continued stock market volatility could continue to unnerve investors this year, as the Dow Jones and other stock market indexes seem determined to continue their roller coaster ride every day.…
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It was touted as an amazing scientific breakthrough – a finger prick blood test that could diagnose numerous diseases within hours. The company’s founder and CEO was a 20-something young…
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The popular belief among mainstream investors, financial institutions, and financial news outlets is that interest rate increases are bearish for gold prices. The logic goes that as interest rates rise,…
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Much of society takes money for granted. Very rarely does anyone stop and ask where money came from, what purpose it serves, and why it exists as it does today.…
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The Federal Reserve lives in bizarro world, where up is down, black is white, and everything is inverted. Specifically what I mean is that the Federal Reserve talks about low…
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As of last week, Twitter has decided to join Facebook and Google in drafting a policy to ban ads for cryptocurrencies. This move by such prominent online sites comes on…