There has been nothing like this GameStop GME, +67.87% saga in recent memory. It’s still early days. But already we can work out some of the groups who are likely to emerge as losers when the dust settles. At least if history is any guide — which, alas, it usually …
Read More »NewsWatch: Here are the biggest stock market winners and losers in Biden’s massive stimulus plan
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Sectors including banking, biotech, gold mining, green energy and infrastructure will be in play this year. See full story. Biden promises 100 federal vaccination centers by end of his first month in office President-elect Joe Biden on Friday gives a speech in Wilmington, Del., about his plan …
Read More »The Margin: In 2018 it was Republicans blasting Democrats as ‘sore losers’ with a ‘problem conceding defeat’
Fox News/”The Daily Show” Two years later, and the partisan shoe is on the other foot. Witness this compilation by Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” of conservative figures taking aim at the Democrats for complaining of irregularities in the conduct of 2018’s midterm elections. Stacey Abrams, notably, did not explicitly …
Read More »Tax Guy: Two years after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — who are the winners and the losers?
With tax filing season now underway, we have two full years of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) changes in the rearview mirror: 2018 and 2019. Are you better off than before? Is the country better off than before? Good questions. Not surprisingly, the answers depend on your specific …
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