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Median U.S. Household Income Rises 6.8% to $68,700 in 2019, Poverty Rate Falls For Fifth Year

September 15, 2020 RickMad Comments Off

USA Today: Americans’ incomes rose sharply last year and fewer people were living in poverty but a growing number went without health insurance for the second straight year. The numbers were skewed by reduced responses […]

Housing Market

Americans Fleeing Cities as Rising Property Taxes Kill Housing Market

FoxBusiness.com: Americans are pouring out of cities with high property taxes and relocating to places like Tennessee in search of lower rates as they try to reduce hidden costs of homeownership. Advertisements [...]
Economy

Economic and Earnings Concerns Begin to Weigh on Stocks

NYTimes.com: Wall Street’s imperviousness to bad news, which enabled stocks to double in value from their pandemic panic lows, may be starting to crack. Advertisements Advertisements When the Federal Reserve [...]
Investing

Cramer’s Week Ahead: Build a Cash Position for the Next Stock Sell-Off

CNBC: CNBC’s Jim Cramer said the February jobs report showed that more Americans are being hired, but not enough to trigger the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.“An employment number [...]
Investing

Gold & Silver Price Manipulation – The Greatest Trick ever Pulled

BullionStar.com: There is probably no other topic in the gold and silver markets which incites heated debate more than the subject of precious metals price manipulation. That prices in the [...]
Social Media

Study Finds Half of Americans Get News on Social Media, But Percentage Has Dropped

TechCrunch.com: A new report from Pew Research finds that around a third of U.S. adults continue to get their news regularly from Facebook, though the exact percentage has slipped from 36% in [...]
Inflation

Peter Schiff: The Fed Will Never Hit Its Inflation Target

SchiffGold.com: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for July came out last week. Even though the headline number ticked up slightly compared to June, most mainstream analysts took it as a [...]