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Is It Your Income Or Spending Calling The Shots?
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 11:37am | 958The paycheck-to-paycheck tango is familiar to many, and it has a common refrain: ‘If only I made more money.’ But is this dance a result of an income shortfall or spending habits gone astray? Let’s say you meet an extremely successful professional who earns $1 million every year,...
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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Projected To Rake In Absurd Amount — And Rank Her Above These Notable Billionaires
Sunday, October 15, 2023 - 3:36pm | 509Global music icon Taylor Swift has not only been making waves with her chart-topping hits but has also emerged as a major moneymaker. What Happened: The artist's recent Eras Tour, which has become the most profitable concert series in U.S. history, has had a profound impact on various...
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A Recession Is Coming In 2023
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 1:22pm | 1192A recession is coming in 2023. New job openings are the lowest they’ve been since April 2021, and layoffs are the highest they’ve been since December 2020. Preparation is essential. Here are 7 strategies you can use to withstand the recession: 1. Beef Up Your Savings If you...
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Do You Have A Process To Build Your Retirement Plan? 3 Key Steps
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - 1:36pm | 1308By Chris Murray Planning for all of the variables of retirement, and understanding how they intertwine, can be tricky. More and more, inflation is becoming a concerning variable that people should factor into their financial plan for retirement. Inflation, which has hit a 40-year-high, has...
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Earnings Roundup: iAnthus, Can-Fite, Organigram, Bluma Wellness, Auxly
Monday, November 30, 2020 - 1:39pm | 1022iAnthus Touts 82% YoY Revenue Growth, Names Interim COO New York-based iAnthus Capital Holdings Inc. (CSE: IAN) (PINK: ITHUF) generated around $40.6 million in revenue during the third quarter of fiscal 2020. That's up by 17% sequentially and roughly 82% year-over-year. The...
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Jushi Touts 67% Revenue Increase On Heels Of Pennsylvania Expansion
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 - 2:33pm | 464Cannabis company Jushi Holdings Inc. (CSE: JUSH) (OTCQB: JUSHF) reported Tuesday its third-quarter revenue totaled $24.9 million, up by 67% over the quarter. The revenue increase could be attributed to the revenue growth at its BEYOND/HELLO stores in Illinois and Pennsylvania, as well as...
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Job Growth Rebounds, But Trucking Jobs Decline For The First Time In Nearly A Year
Friday, April 5, 2019 - 4:05pm | 888Job growth rebounded nicely in March as employers added nearly 200,000 workers to payrolls during the month. This strength in hiring did not translate to the trucking industry however, where payrolls declined for the first time in nearly a year. Job growth rebounded in March after a dismal...
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U.S. Household Incomes Rise For First Time In Nearly 10 Years
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 9:22am | 551U.S. household incomes had not risen since 2007. However, 2015 saw growth not only return, but also hit its highest rate since the Census Bureau first started releasing this data in 1967. Over last year, the typical U.S. family’s inflation-adjusted median income surged by 5.2 percent. After...
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The Middle Class Is Getting A Smaller Slice Of A Larger Pie
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 11:36am | 265The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class isn't advancing, right? Not according to a new study. According to the Urban Institute, the middle class has been shrinking since 1979. However, the shrinking part of the middle class isn't dropping to the lower class,...
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Income and Appreciation with Covered Calls
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 5:07pm | 712A strategy that involves exposure to the stock market, as well as generating monthly income, sounds like a great option in the current market environment. The covered call strategy, also referred to as a buy-write strategy, involves buying shares of a stock and selling a call option against the...
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Four Compelling High Yield Stocks
Saturday, July 6, 2013 - 11:25am | 691The recent sell off in the equity market created some attractive buy levels in some of the high yielding dividend stocks. We ran a screen that looked at larger cap. companies yielding at least five percent that are heavily traded. We also looked for charts that had seem a recent sell off but...
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Tax Planning for the US Supreme Court's Health Care Decision
Thursday, July 5, 2012 - 5:32pm | 644President Obama’s federal health care law requires almost everyone to be insured, and ensures that coverage will be made available to those already ill or in need of expensive care. The ruling clears the way for a large restructuring of the health care system and affects virtually every...
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Debt Adjusted For Income
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 6:39am | 899One of the reasons many market observers believe this recession will be a long one is the growth in consumer debt over the years. As consumers now focus on paying down debt levels, they won't be able to spend to the same extent; thus, fewer goods will be produced, acting as a drag on GDP. But...
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Are All Americans Becoming Poorer?
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 12:00pm | 217Yesterday, Mish posted some grim news regarding median income in the United States. While I would agree with anyone who states that this is bad news, I would caution readers to be careful before assuming that everyone is worse off. As Thomas Sowell would point out, people do not necessarily stay...
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The World Hungers For Emerging Market Bonds
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 2:36pm | 272Despite being one of Eastern Europe's most indebted nations, Hungary is considered a safer borrower than Spain. The cost of credit default swaps (CDS) on Spanish bonds has risen to around 261.9bp. Meanwhile, insuring against a Hungarian default has fallen to 255bp. This is just one example of the...