Few would dispute that the Federal Reserve’s enormous doses of monetary medicine this year were necessary to alleviate the worst economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. But every treatment comes with risks and side effects, and the aggressive intervention by the U.S. central bank added significantly to the ranks of …
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“ “I have never been in a more hostile, manipulative, passive-aggressive environment … and I worked in politics.” ” That’s Julia Payne, a former vice president of communications with Washington, D.C.’s, NFL team, quoted in a Washington Post report late Thursday describing a “nightmare” workplace for women amid a team …
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Tales of out-of-work 20 and 30-somethings using coronavirus-stimulus checks to scoop up stocks on Wall Street with reckless abandon are emerging fast and furiously, but the reasons behind the recent fervor for investing is, perhaps, far simpler. MarketWatch has written a bit about the rise of retail investors of late, …
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Investors’ goal is to make money consistently in all market conditions — amid rampant speculation, a good or bad economy, a pandemic, varied Federal Reserve policies. It’s time for investors who have made money in the stock market over the past decade to say thank you to the Fed. Now …
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