The saga surrounding one of the world’s most recognizable internet stocks has come to a close. Yahoo has finally sold its operating business to Verizon – and the price was only $4.8 billion. What happened?
Read More »Top 30 Fortune 500 Firms with Cash in Offshore Tax Havens
Today’s infographic looks at the 30 companies in the Fortune 500 index with the most holdings in offshore tax havens.
Read More »Young? Here’s How To Manage Your Money
Here are a few thoughts on managing money as a young person with multiple decades ahead of you to invest:
Read More »Where Would You Put Money That You Wouldn’t Need For 10 Years?
One in six investors chose gold as the best place to park money they wouldn't need for more than ten years – the same number that chose stocks, according to a recent Bankrate survey. Another 6% chose bonds, while 25% chose real estate, and 23% said they would simply bank the money.
Read More »What Impact Will the Upcoming U.S. Elections Have On Your Financial Future?
What impact will the elections have on your financial future? Well, frankly, regardless of which side of the political fence you stand on, the prospects of your retirement are much more likely to be impacted by your personal actions than by the actions of Washington politicians.
Read More »Social Security: When to Take It & Will it Survive?
Although I have a few years before I am eligible for Social Security, I’m close enough that I am now thinking about three key issues: 1.At what age to start claiming it; 2.Whether it will still be there when I request it; and, regardless of Social Security, 3.how much does one need to live on in retirement?
Read More »The “Italian problem”: Its Banks & the Future of the Euro
Italy is facing its greatest crisis in the postwar era. The country’s banking system is bankrupt, and no one in Europe is willing to fix it. As a result the euro could start to drift toward dollar parity as the situation in Europe goes from bad to worse.
Read More »“Crexit” Is Upon Us – Caution is Warranted
“Crexit:” a credit crunch brought about by plunging bond prices, soaring losses, an implosion in China’s high-risk debt markets, and a reversal of all the “yield chase” trades investors have flocked to in the last couple of years. That's what S&P's debt analysis team fears is about to unfold with the acceleration in corporate debt and That tells me there’s more going on beneath the surface – and that caution is still warranted when it comes to your investing strategy.
Read More »Citizenship for Sale: Economic Citizenship Programs Around the World
There has been a proliferation of so-called citizenship-by-investment or economic citizenship programs that allow individuals from all over the world to legitimately acquire passports and more and more countries have joined the game. Below are the terms and conditions, by country, for acquiring such a passport.
Read More »Bancopalypse 2.0 May Be Upon Us – Soon
The banking crisis of 2008 never fully healed. It just got shuffled under the carpet while the public was fed a phony narrative that everything was fantastic which turned out to be a gigantic farce; many of the world’s banking systems are just as risky as they were back in 2008.
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