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Award-winning finance journalist — and Social Security recipient — Allan Sloan writes about the looming problems with Social Security.
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Why our obsession with bull markets is...'bull'
Calling a bull market sure does get attention, but it doesn’t feel like a rational way to put money to work.
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Inflation: Why headline numbers on rising costs don't always reflect the real world
Award-winning journalist Allan Sloan breaks down how tricky inflation numbers can be and that it pays to dig a little deeper.
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Disney, DeSantis and opening Pandora's box
Watching Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis try to financially punish the Walt Disney Co. is turning into a major indoor sport. It's also opening a Pandora's box that might never be closed again.
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How I, sort of, make money off 'Forever' stamps — and you can too!
How would you like to be able to put money into an asset that’s all but guaranteed to rise 10% this year, regardless of what the stock market does? Welcome to Forever Stamps.
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Investing: How I really screwed up playing the interest rate game
If you want an example of how someone can get carried away by what seem to be high interest rates, you don’t need to look at huge financial messes like Silicon Valley Bank, R.I.P. Instead, you can look at me.
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Goldman Sachs: Should it be punished for its role in the Silicon Valley Bank debacle?
I’d like to suggest an approach for our political leaders to take on the role that Goldman Sachs played in the collapse of SVB: figure out how much money Goldman made by buying $24 billion of securities from SVB at a below-market price. And then to demand that Goldman turn over that profit to the federal government.
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Jack Welch's GE legacy ended last week: R.I.P.
Jack Welch, the legendary long-time chief executive of General Electric, died on Mar. 1, 2020, almost two decades after he left the company. His corporate legacy died at GE’s recent Investor Day event: Mar. 9, 2023.
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Numbers dive: Warren Buffett's performance is even more amazing than you think
Contributing columnist Allan Sloan, diving into Warren Buffett's annual letter, shows how amazing Berkshire’s performance has been in the almost six decades that Buffett has run the show.
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How I'd fix Social Security
Fix Social Security? When both political parties are finally forced to get together and act like grownups rather than snitty children, we’ll end up with fixes that will likely both increase the program’s revenues and probably reduce its future costs, as well. Here's what they might be.
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Why you should stop caring about the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Have you ever wondered why trillions of investment dollars are indexed to the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index but almost nothing (relatively speaking) is tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average? Go no further than yesterday’s market.
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Bed Bath & Beyond: How stock buybacks undermined the company
One of the major — and overlooked--reasons that Bed Bath & Beyond is in desperate trouble is that when it comes to its own stock, it's violated the key retailer's rule of buy cheap and sell dear.
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What did Tesla's stock plunge cost S&P 500 investors last year? Billions and billions
A lot of retail investors are getting a good laugh from watching the impact that the huge decline in Tesla’s (TSLA) share price is having on Elon Musk, who was the world’s richest person before Tesla started tanking. But you know what? Even though few people seem to realize it, retail investors—people like you and me— are also getting whacked by Tesla’s tremendous fall in price.
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How Bed Bath & Beyond got itself in such a deep financial hole
Bed Bath & Beyond’s problems would be a lot less severe if the company had behaved prudently.
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Here's the upside of Fed rate increases for investors
Income for holders of money market mutual funds is running tens of billions of dollars a year above where it was at the start of the year.
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'The democratization of investing': Index funds officially overtake active managers
For the first time in history, retail investors’ index fund holdings exceed their holdings in actively-managed funds, according to new numbers from Morningstar Direct.