Month: June 2021

Inflation is already at 5% and probably headed higher. Here’s a 39-year old survivalist portfolio poised for a return to its glory days. Is Michael J. Cuggino, vendor of a fund designed to withstand inflation and other disasters, hoping for bad times ahead? Perish the thought. Here’s his diplomatic take on the protestations from the
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Train stations make great hotels, as it turns out. The latest case in point, Central Station Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, opened as a hotel in October 2019, after a 22-month renovation. With 123 rooms and an appropriately music-oriented décor, it is located in the thriving South Main District, near the National Civil Rights Museum, Beale
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Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Adobe (ADBE) – Adobe reported quarterly profit of $3.03 per share, 21 cents a share above estimates. The software company’s revenue also topped Wall Street forecasts and Adobe gave stronger-than-expected current-quarter guidance. Its shares rose 3.1% in premarket trading. Smith & Wesson (SWBI)
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By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Editor Until now, we’ve never published a Next Avenue article about cryptocurrency or Bitcoin or the blockchain and, as the editor of our Money channel, I’m the reason why. Frankly, I’ve felt that the Bitcoin digital currency and other cryptocurrencies were, at best, extremely volatile and risky investments (did I mention
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Sometimes normal human instincts don’t lead to the best actions. That’s a basic finding of behavioral finance research, and it’s true of a lot of retirement planning. People often believe that taking more actions is better than doing less, but doing more often doesn’t improve retirement plans and often can make them worse. For example,
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DOJ is sending a message to tax professionals – particularly CPAs – who are involved in the syndicated conservation easement (SCE) industry. The message is “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” That is my reading of a recent press release about Georgia CPA Herbert E. Lewis indicted for SCE schemes involving fraudulent charitable contributions. DOJ releases like to lay
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Foreign purchasers have long comprised a large share of home buyers in South Florida. But this year, they are being outnumbered by California and Northeast U.S. transplants, who viewed the pandemic as a catalyst to relocate from their dense urban areas and high-tax states. The result? Record-low inventory levels of single-family homes in South Florida,
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