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As investors look into new opportunities in 2023, we can count on the continuing susceptibility of investors to buy faddish, shiny new objects that have a long history of falling from their lofty heights. It may take a few years, but the old tale of bursting bubbles now entraps retail and institutional, professional, and amateur…
Trump, crypto, and QAnon are the engines for disinformation, but who benefits from the chaos? Given the long and twisted legal history, accompanied by Donald Trump’s questionable business practices, political commentators have repeatedly asked: How has Trump gotten away with flaunting the law for about 50 years? This is a national mystery. Most Americans know…
Economic factors are expected to buffet financial wellness programs, but how do they work in an age of misinformation, distrust, and political gridlock? Recent reports show they don’t. These deficiencies are not new. Financial literacy among Americans has remained poor for decades, and there are no signs this is reversing. Financial literacy programs have been…
Risk is an inherent part of any investment. Since there is always the possibility an investment will decline in value, investors must identify the risks that can degrade returns and then develop a plan to minimize the effects of risk on their overall portfolio. The key to controlling risk and portfolio volatility is asset…
Florida has significant problems– rising real estate-related insurance, inspection, over-building, and property ownership-related costs–that are being ignored as Florida Governor Ron Desantis runs for president. To millions of Floridians, the new financial problems are severe enough that many will not be able to pay their monthly mortgages and related Home Owner Association (HOA) fees and…
The Basics of Investing: Managing Portfolio Risk Through Diversification Diversifying your investment portfolio is as much common sense as it is investment science. Diversification can be achieved in two ways: by investing within an asset class, such as stocks, bonds, real assets, and alternatives, or by investing across asset classes, such as stocks,…
Watch this video Watch this video to see Trump’s plan for what he will do to his opponents, including immigrants, people who have prosecuted him, and people he does not like. Fascists love violence and see it as morally righteous, and they use dehumanizing language to legitimize their criminal ways. This is what Hitler and…
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The billionaire and egomaniac Sheldon Adelson was the largest single financial backer of Donald Trump in the 2017 election. At the time Adelson gave Trump around $200 million, it was well known that Trump was trafficking with neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and Christian nationalists. It was also known that Trump was a white-collar criminal, a…
Hedge funds are the most exotic and secretive of investments. They are primarily used in institutional accounts or in those of high, net worth investors. But hedge funds use strategies that can be used by individual investors, or in some cases, individuals can invest directly in hedge funds if they meet key criteria.
ETFs, also known as Exchange Traded Funds, are the most popular and investor-friendly investment inventions of the past century. ETFs are now a $7 trillion market and offer a wide variety of exposures to all market sectors, equity and bond styles, indexes, and specific categories of investments, such as ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) funds. Basically,…
The prospect of higher interest rates and sustained market volatility as the Fed starts to change direction from its historic policy of Quantitative Easing (QE) should raise a caution flag for investors who want to protect their portfolios. Recognizing this is the easy part. Consumer spending is often tied to increases and decreases…
It’s hard to bankrupt a casino, but in modern times, Donald Trump and Sam Bankman-Fried have done the near impossible and bankrupted their casinos due to gross mismanagement and their failures to fulfill their customers’ fantasies of getting rich quickly. In the latest crypto scam, Sam Bankman-Fried, the head of FTX, stole as much…
The combination of giant egos, a pile of cash for political donations, and a need to protect their tax breaks is an incendiary combination for any American political group. But when it comes to Jewish groups giving a standing ovation to a disgraced and corrupt presidential candidate who faces 90 indictment counts, as well…
The Republican Jewish Coalition and its Self-Serving Agenda At its recent annual conference in Las Vegas, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) hosted current Republican presidential candidates, most of whom are blind supporters of the indicted and convicted criminal Donald Trump and his right-wing MAGA agenda. Republican and Democrat presidential candidates flock to conferences featuring…
“Soft” retirement means “I’ll never have enough money to retire or buy a house, so why bother.” As someone who has been writing about retirement since the late 1970s, I can safely say that I have never written a positive story in about 50 years that says older Americans will be more financially secure…
Hedge funds are the real “rootless cosmopolitans” who go anywhere where there are tax breaks, minimal regulations, and a luxurious lifestyle. One of the biggest attractions of hedge funds since their inception in 1949 was that they could skirt many regulations and always love the “edge.” The “edge” is a trading term meaning…
Biden Makes the Republican Jewish Coalition and Jexit Obsolete Or, Beware of False Political Messiahs in 2023 When organizations lose one of their main reasons to exist, they face the reality that they are no longer needed. That’s the case with the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and Jexit, which describe their missions…
BY-BYE BOCA PART 3: HOW THE VERY WEALTHY HANDLE DENSE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT WHERE THEY LIVE HINT: THEY DON’T ALLOW It The Town of Palm Beach Has Resisted and Prevented Development Because It Listens to its Residents “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” ―Coco Chanel For the…
Bye Bye Bibi Netanyahu and Trump: Two Sociopaths Who Sacrificed Country for Personal Power The historic loss of life and the surprise attack in Israel will have repercussions for years. Still, the only bright side of this tragedy is that it will remove Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power. Egomaniacs like Netanyahu brazenly…
