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6 Simple Ways to Pay off Your Mortgage Faster
Making monthly minimum payments on a mortgage can affect your wallet, retirement, and self-esteem. We’ll focus on the most effective mortgage repayment strategies like making initial and principal payments, and how to downsize... Read →
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Amarin Shows Vascepa Is A Mega Blockbuster
Tiny little Amarin Corporation, an Irish pharmaceuticals company, just released the results of the reduce-it trial today. Amarin was testing the effect of epa - one of the components of fish oil - in patients with a history of heart... Read →
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The New York Times – All the News That’s Fit to Print -- and Then Some
The New York Times did a very, very stupid thing, either because they themselves – like most Americans these days – are pretty stupid, or because they were bending over backward (foolishly) to show how impartial they... Read →
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American Women, American History will Not Forget!
#MeToo and all of the strides women have made in recent years are about to fall for want of two women in America on whom so much rests and who now appear not to have the ”cajones” to save contemporary women’s rights, roles... Read →
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Ignore the Know-Nothings Pushing Emerging Markets Now More than Ever
Every couple of hours, CNBC brings in a money management type to ask them what they are buying (and selling). Anyone who has been watching CNBC for more than a decade knows that this is a good time to hit the mute button. Sometimes,... Read →
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Does the Stock Market Need to be Massively Overbought Before It Crashes?
I cannot turn on CNBC or Bloomberg without hearing some money management type explain that there is no risk of a stock market crash because it is not wildly overbought like it was in 1929, 1987, 2000 or 2008. It seems that everyone is... Read →
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The US Economy Is Outperforming the Rest of the World, but Europe Will Be the Renewables Technology Leader in 20 Years
Technology is what has made the US great. It is what has made us more affluent as a society than any society in the history of mankind. And, over the last 20 years, the most extraordinarily innovative and influential companies like... Read →
September 2018 Outlook: With the Fed Poised to Raise Twice Before the End of the Year, Here are the 5 Best Savings and CD Products Now
As we move into the fall with all sorts of political turbulence with potential economic ramifications, the Federal Reserve remains poised to raise the Fed funds rate by 50 basis points to 2.25% to 2.50% before December. As we pointed... Read →
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NY Times Op-Ed Author is A Woman, Maybe Kellyanne Conway
It won’t be long before the heroic author of the anonymous Op Ed in yesterday’s NYT is known. She knew she would be identified, even though she tried to hold her cover for a while – for example, by the diversion tactic of... Read →
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Woodward Book is the Latest Media Talking Point, but Won’t Change Anything
The media is going crazy trying to make hay of the revelations in Bob Woodward’s latest book. Much of what he says in his book have been said already. Somehow, the fact that these same things have been written by the journalist who... Read →
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Think Carefully Before You Buy a Five-Year CD (For Goodness Sakes)
Over the last two days, I have been contacted by a number of people who have asked me about 5-year CDs. I am not sure why this is all happening at once. I did learn today that TD Ameritrade is apparently pushing a 5-year brokered... Read →
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Robert Mueller Blew It
Robert S. Mueller has been in government too long. He has lost his edge. He’s obviously a bright and worthy man. But, Mueller is obviously, also, far too married to process and procedure, and far too short on strategy. And, by... Read →
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Giuliani is Way, Way Over the Line
As a New Yorker who experienced 9-11 and a Republican prior to the party’s seizure by the current president’s people, I have found it very difficult to be publicly critical of Rudy Giuliani, no matter what absurd statement he... Read →
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Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York – A Very Sad Day
Columbia Grammar and Preparator School (CGPS) in New York is one of the elite private schools in New York City with a distinguished history going back to 1764. Today, it boasts a student body of roughly 1300 in K-12 with a student/teacher... Read →