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Opinion: What if You Die First? 10 Important Financial Issues for Married People

August 20, 2021 Alyssa Comments Off

Marketwatch.com: If you’re married, it’s almost certain that one of you will outlive the other—perhaps by many years. What are the financial implications? Here are 10 issues to keep in mind: 1. Social Security. For a […]

Business

Wall Street Dealmaking Tops $5.8 Trillion In Record Year As Fed Floods World With Money

ZeroHedge.com: Ask any junior banker, and they will likely tell you that staffing levels are criminally low considering the intensity of deal flow over the past year. So it shouldn’t [...]
Big Tech

‘Monumental’ Antitrust Case Between Google, Justice Department Begins In Washington, DC

FoxBusiness.com: Justice Department filed civil antitrust lawsuit against Google in October 2020. An antitrust challenge against Google that the Justice Department is describing as a “monumental case” is kicking off Tuesday in [...]
Investing

4 Big Box Store Stocks to Buy in August

StockNews.com: The retail industry rearranged its operations to focus mainly on online platforms and delivery networks amid social distancing mandates last year. However, with the vaccination rollout in full swing, [...]
Stock Market

Stocks Shake Off Bad News to Rally for Seventh Month Straight

NYTIMES.com: With expectations that interest rates will stay down and government spending will stay up, the stock market has learned to live with the pandemic, even as cases increase. Advertisements [...]
Federal Reserve

Cash Flood Drives Use of Fed Reverse Repo to Record $1 Trillion

Bloomberg: An overabundance of cash in U.S. interest-rate markets has for the first time ever pushed the amount that investors are parking at a major central bank facility to more [...]
CBDCs

Mastercard Deepens Tie to CBDCs as Nations Mull Issuing Digital Currencies

CoinDesk.com: Some of the first partners in a new Mastercard CBDC forum include Ripple, Fireblocks and Consensys. Payments giant Mastercard has created a forum where crypto industry players can discuss [...]

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