Capital Gains: Realization Does Not Matter – by Steve Roth Wealth Economics You’re looking at your asset portfolio and decide to sell or buy some ETF shares. Click. The transaction is a dollar-for-dollar asset swap between you and your counterparty, at current market prices: M assets (bank deposits) in exchange for ETF assets, and vice versa. Equal […]
Getting needed and proper healthcare is a task in the USA. A task in the richest global nation when getting healthcare should not be in the United States. Even if the care is available, it may come at a cost which prevents a person from getting care. The programs which can help a person get […]
DOGE today, gone tomorrow “With a little more than a month until Inauguration Day, one of the most fascinating parts of the new administration isn’t being led by President-elect Donald Trump. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has arguably garnered more attention than Trump’s plans for tax cuts, tariffs, and immigration. Co-heads Elon Musk […]
A More Democratic Economy A 1787 newly minted United States of America wasn’t far removed from an old Europe where not so long before all property belonged to the crown or state; where only a hundred years or so earlier John Locke had first defended the idea of private property at a time when most […]
– by Bill McBride Calculated Risk Newsletter REO: lender Real Estate Owned We will NOT see a surge in housing foreclosures that would significantly impact house prices (as happened following the housing bubble) for two key reasons: 1) mortgage lending has been solid, and 2) most homeowners have substantial equity in their homes. Last week, CoreLogic reported […]
Interesting article on wealth. Sometimes being lucky outperforms talent or intelligence. A recent article including some graphs I included. Sources for the graphs are provided allowing the reader to learn more about how wealth is obtained. Article by Vawn Himmelsbach was portrayed in Moneywise. ‘Moneyball’ and ‘Big Short’ Author Michael Lewis Says Elite Rich Americans […]
– by New Deal democrat With the update on inflation earlier this week, let’s take a look a real average wages and real aggregate payrolls. Plus there is a significant update to my yellow flag caution on the employment situation. First, nominally nonsupervisory wages rose slightly under 0.3% in November, while consumer prices rose slightly […]
How the Vinyl Record Revival Is Spinning Into the Future, Norbert Sparrow, Plastics Today, Norbert Sparrow Good take om the revival of records. That is if you remember 78s and 45s. But today’s vinyl is not the same as that used to press Michael Jackson’s Bad, the best-selling album that year. Just as music has evolved […]
– by New Deal democrat As is so often the case this time of year, seasonality likely played havoc with this week’s new jobless claims. Last year Thanksgiving was November 23rd; this year it was the 28th, putting it in a different week for many statistics. So the jobless claims this morning were for the […]
as Joe Manchin, Sinema Block Biden NLRB Nominee AB: I never had much respect for Joe Manchin. Just another rich guy out of West Virgnia. Perfect article about Joe’s reign in WV since 2010 “What has Joe Manchin done for West Virginia?” The answer to that question is not much unless it benefited him or […]