Comparing Mutual Funds and ETFs

via visualcapitalist: For the vast majority of investors, it makes sense to hold a diverse portfolio of investments. But, unless you are willing to go out and individually pick 20 different securities yourself, it’s likely you will be relying on financial …

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Germany Heads for a Technical Recession – This Economic Slowdown Is Not Unique To Germany But Has Been Spreading Across The EU

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter OK, this is embarrassing in the land of super-stimulus via the ECB’s negative-interest-rate policy and years of QE that were supposed to perform miracles: Production in Germany’s industry, which includes construction, dropped 1.9% in November from …

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Mobile Phone As A Tracking Device

by SP It looks like the sale of an individual’s location information on the black market has come of age. Motherboard reports: T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up …

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Worldwide Real Estate Crash & Why

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Sir, Listening to the WEC 2018 recording this weekend, Mike Campbell made an interesting sideline comment. He stated that pension funds were heavily invested in real estate. Is this just Canada or the US as well? If …

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Kass: Follow The Money

by Lance Roberts The Tremor Before the Quake and the Fed’s $450 Billion Balance Sheet Reduction “The combination of rate hikes and balance sheet reductions from the Federal Reserve in 2018 sucked up global U.S. dollar liquidity and put emerging …

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Now 13 congressional freshmen say they will not take their $174,000-a-year salary while shutdown continues – but high-profile millennial Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is NOT among them

A total of 48 lawmakers – both Democrats and Republicans – have said they will not take a salary while the government is shutdown   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t saying whether or not she’ll take her salary Ocasio-Cortez, in December, tweeted that …

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NYC GUARANTEES HEALTH CARE FOR ALL

via nbcnewyork: New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone’s ability to pay or immigration status, an unprecedented plan that will protect the more than half-a-million New Yorkers currently using the ER as …

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