Dear Quentin, I read your column regularly. I never thought that I would reach out to you with my own issues. But I was wrong. I’m hoping you can help on how best to handle this situation. In 2016, I lost my long-term job. The company simply went through serious …
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A new commodity ‘supercycle’ has started, according to Marko Kolanovic, the highly regarded quantitative analyst at JPMorgan. The commodity upswing, and oil CL.1, -0.24% move in particular, has started, and will be driven by the post-pandemic recovery, ultraloose monetary and fiscal policies, a weak dollar DXY, -0.04%, stronger inflation, as …
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Everyone would like to invest in real estate. Yet, not everyone can afford to. Of course, the first step to attaining this goal is to spend wisely and save money over time. But, the fact is that real estate investments can’t wait. The right time to get started is now. …
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More than 250,000 unemployed people in Arizona became the first Americans to receive an extra $ 300 in weekly unemployment benefits on Monday following executive actions taken by President Donald Trump. An executive order that Trump signed Aug. 8 calls for distributing an additional $ 300 in weekly unemployment benefits …
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Hey fellow white people. Like me, if you were born in America and grew up in America, you were raised to be racist. Even if we like to think we “don’t see color”. Even if we can’t identify anything racist we’ve ever said or done or thought. Even if our …
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“ ‘I was in shock. I felt like everything was going to be taken from me, all my assets.’ ” That’s Syed Shah (not pictured), a 30-year-old daytrader in Toronto whose ill-fated attempt to dip his toe into the oil pits CL00, -1.17% was covered in a recent story by …
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