Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York University professor and author Jerome Favre | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nassim Nicholas Taleb has reversed his stance on bitcoin. The “Black Swan” author said in a recent paper that the largest cryptocurrency by market cap has failed to satisfy the notions of it as a currency without government, a
Month: July 2021
A Social Security Administration office in San Francisco. Getty Images There’s new leadership at the Social Security Administration. A number of retirement advocates are applauding the move. President Joe Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul on July 9. Saul, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, locked heads with Democrats earlier this year over
by Erik Sherman Keep living in an apartment without paying rent? In the “before times,” it would have been unthinkable — at least without a concerted legal battle with an angry landlord. During the COVID-19 pandemic, though, all that went out the window. Congress first put an eviction moratorium into place from March 27 to
In this installment of Willis Weighs In, Tax Analysts’ Jasper Smith, Executive Editor for Commentary, talks with Tax Notes contributing editor Benjamin M. Willis and Jillian S. Brennan, 2021 valedictorian of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, about their article on zero-basis debt and writing about tax. Here are a few highlights from their discussion, edited for length
Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Angels celebrates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run during the third inning against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on July 09, 2021 in Seattle, Washington. Abbie Parr | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images Major League Baseball saw this coming – the rise of
JPMorgan Chase reported second-quarter profit and revenue that exceeded analysts’ expectations as the firm released money set aside for loan losses. Here’s how the bank did: Earnings: $3.78 per share, exceeding the $3.21 per share estimate per Refinitiv. Revenue: $31.4 billion, topping the $29.9 billion estimate. One key factor is that after the industry set
U.S. stock index futures were flat in overnight trading on Tuesday, after the major averages finished in the red, weighed down by inflation fears. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were unchanged. The Dow closed the regular trading session down 107 points, or 0.3%. The decline came
David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs & Co., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that China’s recent moves boosting oversight of its technology
10’000 Hours | DigitalVision | Getty Images Target-date funds have ballooned in popularity over the past 15 years — yet many investors aren’t using them the way they were intended. The funds were designed as a one-stop shop that put retirement savings on autopilot. Investors are meant to park their nest egg in one fund,
In 1974, the Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight was a popular car – and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was enacted to govern the US pension system. A lot has changed since 1974. Oldsmobile no longer exists, for one thing. The “typical” American family comes in many more shapes and sizes. And American workers are unlikely
Bill Oxford | E+ | Getty Images Roughly 4 million refunds will be sent this week to people who overpaid taxes on their 2020 unemployment benefits, the IRS announced Tuesday. Due to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, which became law in March, up to $10,200 in 2020 unemployment compensation was excluded from taxable
Perverse Statutory Construction Allows A Government Conservator To Loot The Property That It Manages For Its Beneficiaries For many years, I worked as an advisor to a number of hedge funds with positions in preferred and common stock of Fannie and Freddie. But no longer. The question that was raised then, and which has been
Taoism tell us that mindful strategic inaction, expressed in the concept of wu wei (literally “doing nothing” in Chinese), is usually the most effective approach to the challenges of living. It’s often the same with employee stock options. Waiting as long as possible to exercise stock options—i.e. doing nothing and letting the value grow until
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, delivers remarks during a press briefing with Press Secretary Jen Psaki at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2021. Tom Brenner | Reuters White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci fully expects the coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and
In this article PEP Bottles of PepsiCo Inc. brand Pepsi soda for sale at a grocery store in Bagdad, Kentucky, U.S., on Friday, April 9, 2021. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images PepsiCo on Tuesday reported that its quarterly revenue rose more than 20% as restaurant demand for its drinks returned, fueling an earnings
In this article GSBD Goldman Sachs on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that blew past Wall Street expectations, propelled by strong performance in investment banking amid a robust IPO market. Here are the numbers: Earnings: $15.02 per share vs. $10.24 expected by analysts polled by Refinitiv. A year earlier Goldman recorded earnings per share of $6.26 (53
For two decades, former New York Yankees star C.C. Sabathia was one of the best and highest-paid pitchers in Major League Baseball, grossing more than $260 million throughout his career until he retired in 2019. In 2008, Sabathia signed what was then the largest contract for a starting MLB pitcher: a seven-year, $161 million deal. In his
A visual representation of digital currencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Virtual payments can be costly and slow – which makes them ripe for disruption by digital currencies, particularly stablecoin. What makes virtual payments inefficient is that they occur in a multitude of smaller closed networks: banks facilitate transfers linked to accounts, credit card networks
Pascal Broze | ONOKY | Getty Images Rising inflation has startled many retirees, who now worry about outliving their savings. The consumer price index for June, measuring the cost of food, gasoline, housing, utilities and other goods, increased by 0.9%, the largest one-month change since June 2008, according to the Labor Department. Although Federal Reserve
Most people follow the straightforward path of real estate: We buy, we own our home, we live there for a number of years, the house appreciates in value, and we sell it. Do we pay taxes on that appreciation? For most Americans, the answer is no. This is due to Internal Revenue Code, section 121,
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