Month: December 2020

Investor Peter Boockvar warns bullishness is at dangerous levels. He’s worried about investor optimism touching dot-com-bubble euphoria levels. “Sentiment has gotten as ebullient as we’ve seen in early 2000,” the Bleakley Advisory Group chief investment officer told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Monday. “It’s all about that enthusiasm for stocks that should make somebody that is bullish
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Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, at in the final session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa meeting at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, on September 06, 2019, in Cape Town. Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images Despite now being a scientific advisor to the U.K. government on the coronavirus, Professor Jeremy Farrar pretty
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getty Is Social Security a “pension benefit”? Not really. It’s a social insurance program, which means something entirely different. As I I explained last month, Social Security is meant to provide a baseline level of retirement provision for all American workers. We contribute for our entire working lives, but our contributions aren’t about directly “earning”
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Demonstrators in Chicago protest President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate change accord on June 2, 2017. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images As the Federal Reserve recently called out climate change as a stability risk, the investing world is recognizing the potential rewards of addressing the challenge. “There’s an
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Kevin O’Leary on Monday ripped the patchwork approach to coronavirus restrictions across the U.S., saying locale-by-locale variation puts a significant burden on business operators. Appearing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” the “Shark Tank” investor acknowledged there is a need for policies to curb spread of the Covid-19. “My question is very simple: Who decides? Is it at the
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Founder and Managing Partner of Club Estate a leading real estate investment boutique for family offices and institutional clients. Getty The real estate industry is transforming at an unprecedented speed, with the Covid-19 crisis acting as an additional catalyst for change. Technological developments in proptech, the impact of ESG criteria and the changes in the way people
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