It’s a three-ring circus! For centuries people have embraced the circus. Enjoying the sticky fluff of cotton candy while elephants, clowns and trapeze artists perform in the spotlights. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines the experience as wild, confusing, engrossing, and entertaining. Some aspects of that description apply to recent financial market activity. Last week, we saw: […]
Travelers should expect longer waits to get their passports renewed—but there are options to speed up the process. By Allison Pohle, Wall Street Journal _____________________________________________ If you haven’t yet renewed your passport ahead of international summer travel, prepare to pay plenty to fix the problem. Wait times for passports have increased across the board in […]
Investors aren’t happy, but stocks are up. If you ever participated in a fantasy football league, you may have experienced a run on a position during your draft. One person picks a kicker or a defensive end mid-round and, suddenly, almost everyone rushes to follow suit. A similar occurrence may be happening in the United […]
Angela Bender Completes Advanced Training from America’s IRA Experts at Ed Slott and Company, LLC Members of Ed Slott’s Master Elite IRA Advisor GroupSM Attend Semiannual Workshop on the Latest Retirement Account Planning Strategies, Estate Planning Techniques and Tax Laws Angela Bender, CFP® and managing partner of AMJ Financial Wealth Management, recently completed her […]
You might have been hacked if your social media account has posts you didn’t make, you can’t log into your email or social media account, your Sent folder has messages you didn’t send or has been emptied, friends and family are getting emails or messages you didn’t send, sometimes with random links or fake pleases […]
Brace yourself! The debt ceiling standoff continues. Consumers aren’t optimistic. The Consumer Sentiment Index fell to a six-month low in May, dropping 9.1 percent month-to-month. Participants in the University of Michigan survey were: Less concerned about current economic conditions (down 5.4 percent, month-to-month), and More concerned about future economic conditions (down 11.7 percent, month-to-month). They […]
Here’s how to enable security settings, diversify data backups and freeze your credit By Nicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal Since reporting on a rash of iPhone thefts that rob victims of their digital lives, we’ve heard from lots of readers with one big question: How do I protect my precious assets—from photos in the […]
The labor market just keeps growing…and growing… Last week, the April employment report for the United States arrived. It showed that unemployment dropped to the lowest level in more than 50 years – 3.4 percent. Other highlights included: The creation of 253,000 jobs in April. That was well above consensus estimates, according to Catarina Saraiva […]
Get real! Despite more than a year of aggressive Federal Reserve rate increases, the United States economy is still growing, albeit more slowly. U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) – the value of all goods and services produced in the U.S. economy – grew by 5.1 percent over the first quarter. You may have read or […]