Month: June 2020

©hd3dsh – stock.adobe.com Personalizing your response to 2020’s Bear Markets, Recession, Pandemic and the rest of the hurdles to building and protecting wealth It’s just another lazy summer in the midst of a boring, nondescript year. Oh, wait, that was last year’s message at this time. 2020 has been a time of great adjustment for
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Multiple states are experiencing a spike in Covid-19 cases amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, sparking controversy over whether people should be required to wear masks in public to help slow the spread of the virus. States like Florida, Georgia and Texas, which do not have statewide mask mandates, hit record highs in their average number of
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Getty Everyone’s talking about a “second stimulus,” it seems, these days. Here’s CBS News: “there are signs the White House may get behind additional stimulus funding, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the administration is working on its own plan. During a press conference last week to discuss unemployment, President Donald Trump said his
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Palm Springs’ luxury market is seeing increased activity Getty Here’s the luxury housing market update from realtor.com.  The latest numbers tell a positive story according to Javier Vivas, realtor.com’s director of research. “I was surprised when I saw the data telling us luxury buyers are back in full force.”  As stock market volatility continues Vivas,
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Francis Bacon’s “Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus.” Source: Sotheby’s Sotheby’s plan to auction off a $60 million painting on Monday night marks the first real test of the global art market since the coronavirus pandemic — and is a bold experiment in the centuries-old model for sales auctions.  Sotheby’s aims to sell more
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There’s just a handful of interventions proven to curb the spread of the coronavirus. One of them is contact tracing, and “it’s not going well,” White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday.  Contact tracing occurs when trained personnel contact infected people to investigate where they might have been infected and who they might have
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Sam Seagraves Source: Sam Seagraves Almost all of the money Sam Seagraves used to make as an actor in Portland, Oregon, went toward her monthly student loan bill of $1,083.  Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. With many production companies postponing or cancelling operations, Seagraves hasn’t been hired for a role since March. The CARES Act granted
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Biologist Beth Cameron spent nearly two decades preparing for a biological threat like Covid-19. Most notably, in 2014, Cameron, then the Obama Administration’s director of countering biological threats, helped create a “pandemic playbook” to guide the White House in handling a pandemic. They knew one was eventually coming. “[W]e starting working on the playbook following the
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