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Should Bitcoin Be 5% Of Allocators’ Portfolios?
…the article argues. Without a higher level of safety or regulation, investors won’t move to make the full Bitcoin allocation. Given that there’s bipartisan support in the federal government for…
How Long Will The IPO Ride Last?
…reports The Wall Street Journal. Now that list stands at over 4000 for the first time in over 10 years. From a surge in cash from the federal government to…
Profit Falls In The Third Quarter For Berkshire Hathaway
…a cash reserve of over $149 billion—a record high for the company. In fact, their largest investment in the quarter was in itself; they bought back $7.6 billion of its…
Inflation Means Bigger Profits For Some American Companies
…These companies are seizing the opportunity to raise prices to match the rising costs—and consumers, ripe with savings and federal stimulus checks, are paying them. The profits tend to be…
Millennials Will Drive Up Housing Costs For Years
…the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. They also received $380 million in federal stimulus, and discovered investing (51% of new pandemic-era investors are millennials). In short, millennials have wealth, and…
Dividends & Buybacks Are Picking Up At Last
…a small ($25 billion) buyback. The ongoing threat to buybacks is Congress, with Democrats looking to tax them more heavily in order to fund federal spending plans, the article concludes….
Eighteen Financial Terms That Define Our Time
…markets. Many of the other terms we’ll talk about are derivative effects from the GFC. Quantitative Easing (QE): Quantitative easing is a tactic used by the Federal Reserve to help…
Two Shiller-Inspired Metrics, Two Wildly Different Valuation Stories
…with another.” There’s been much talk about what could move yields higher, with a likely catalyst being hot inflation readings that last longer than the Federal Reserve expects. Using Shiller’s…
Are Equities an Inflation Hedge?
…from 1947 to 2021 (using data from the St. Louis federal Reserve and stock market data from the Kenneth French data library). The results are illustrated in the following graph:…