This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. There have been a number of intriguing ETFs that have popped up in recent years that allow investors to bet on their favorite stocks while getting paid a fatter dividend for doing so. Indeed,…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. There are a number of factors I’d consider intriguing, to say the least, about this current macroeconomic climate. Investors are now operating in an environment with both higher inflation and slower growth than many…
$15 Billion!? FBI Says It’s Uncovered ‘Largest Health Care Fraud’ In American History Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 30 said that almost $15 billion was reported in losses in the “largest health care fraud” investigation in U.S. history, with officials charging…
Among major market indices, the S&P 500 is the go-to index for the broader stock market. It represents 500 of the top companies that trade in the stock market based on their market capitalizations. But on a global scale, the S&P 500 isn’t the only game in town and arguably could take a page out…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are must-haves if you’re currently in retirement and you’re looking for income. Many people focus solely on Treasuries or a mix of individual stocks and Treasuries, but you’re missing out if…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are a popular investment sector of particular interest to income-based investors. For centuries, and transcending many nations and cultures, real estate has always been looked upon as a source…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The late great Charlie Munger really played a huge role in shaping Warren Buffett’s investment philosophy over the decades. Indeed, it was his idea to invest in stellar companies at reasonable prices rather than…
Florida Gov. DeSantis Announces Tax Holiday On Guns Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) rolled out the “Second Amendment” tax holiday earlier this year, offering sales tax relief on firearms, ammunition, and related gear. The tax holiday officially begins on September 8. The initiative arrives as the U.S. gun industry has slumped into a downturn after…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. With markets closing out the first half of the year and the month of June on a high note,the S&P 500 is now up 5.7% so far in 2025. Investors may be wondering where…
Mark Cuban happens to be not only a great businessman, he’s also one who’s clearly at least attempting to be a driving force for good in the private U.S. healthcare sector. Cuban has discussed at length his plans for Cost Plus Drugs, a rather remarkable business he launched to try to take market share from…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Precious metals have seized the spotlight in 2025, riding a wave of economic uncertainty, tariff-induced trade wars and historic volatility in the first quarter. With inflation refusing to fully subside, interest rates remaining elevated…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. One of the most important things that can happen in someone’s financial life is a large inheritance. As the baby boomer generation prepares to hand over a substantial amount of wealth to their children,…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Precious metals are reminding investors that compelling opportunities exist beyond the traditional playgrounds of stocks and bonds. In 2025, these assets have been firmly on the radar of both big and small investors who…
Ultra-Processed Foods Linked To Brain Changes That Drive Overeating Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ultra-processed foods (UPF) may be literally rewiring your brain to make you overeat, according to research that examined brain scans from nearly 30,000 middle-aged adults and found structural changes in regions that control hunger and food…
Jim Cramer is a popular television personality and a former hedge fund manager. He has made some interesting stock predictions in the past, and as an anchor on Squawk on the Street and host of Mad Money, he often discusses the impact of tariffs on the stock market and selects stocks that are worth a…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. With the first half of 2025 wrapped up, now feels like as good a time as any to check in with the top-performing dividend plays and see how the stage is set for the…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. If you’ve got a $3 million nest egg to put to work, a dividend-focused strategy could be the right fit for you. Even with such a towering fortune to invest, though, investors should resist…
Quantum Meets AI: Morgan Stanley Maps Out Next Tech Frontier It’s widely accepted that quantum computing remains a long-term bet, with meaningful commercialization unlikely before the 2030s—if not later. Investor enthusiasm plunged sharply in early January after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang remarked that “very useful” quantum computers are still years away. Since then, however, quantum computing stocks…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. In light of the economic, demographic and health quality changes that American retirees currently face, certain rules of thumb that many financial professionals have sworn by for decades are due for re-evaluation. The “100…
Say what you want about bond king Ray Dalio, but the CEO of Bridgewater Associates is very opinionated and is what I would call a high-conviction investor. Dalio picks companies and sectors he thinks are unduly beaten down (or those which carry asymmetric levels of risk to short), and he goes out and acts on…
The Future Of Crypto Equity Wrappers Authored by Omid Malekan, Co-authored with Frank Cavallo of Motus Capital Management Crypto treasury companies such as Strategy are all the rage right now. Seemingly not a day goes by without an announcement of yet another public vehicle whose primary purpose is to provide cryptocurrency exposure inside an equity…
Protesters Outraged As Trump Expected To Visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida America has the best alligators in the world, big beautiful alligators, perfect for stopping dangerous illegal immigrants from escaping detention until they can be processed and deported. At least, Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security think so. Others, however, are not so…
Disney Hit With More Layoffs As Latest Woke Projects Bomb Hard It would seem that Disney still hasn’t learned its lesson when it comes to DEI in entertainment. The company which just initiated a series of layoffs of hundreds of employees at the beginning in June is now getting rid of at least 2% of…
This post Jim Rickards Talks Iran, and His Time at the CIA appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Jim Rickards’ latest appearance on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom show is a must-watch. Today we’ll discuss a few highlights then link to the full interview. Jim talks in depth with Steve about a number of hot-button and controversial topics….
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. If you’re a baby boomer nearing retirement, or you’re already there, the last thing you want to run into is financial setbacks. Unfortunately, many are still making decisions that may prevent retirement and potential…
America’s 75,000 Page Horror Story Via SchiffGold.com, While most of the American government can be characterized by regulatory overgrowth, few areas loom larger in the public imagination than the Tax Code. This reputation is well earned, as the Tax Code seems to become more complicated each time people try to reform it. Hundreds of years of…
The U.S. dollar just keeps getting weaker and weaker, and that is a major problem because our current standard of living depends on having a strong dollar. When the U.S. dollar is strong relative to other national currencies, our paychecks stretch farther and we can buy more stuff. Conversely, when the U.S. dollar is weak…
The Decline And Fall Of Our So-Called Degreed Experts Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs…
Silver is an essential precious metal that you’ll find in essential resources like semiconductors, cars, EV batteries, 5G networks, and computers. Silver derives more than half of its demand from global industrial applications, and as demand grows, silver’s price will also go up. Investors who want to bet on a golden future for silver can…
MIT Invents “Bubble Wrap” That Pulls Fresh Water From The Air…Even In The Driest Places In The World MIT researchers have invented a new water-harvesting device — a high-tech version of “bubble wrap” — that can pull safe drinking water straight from the air, even in extreme environments like Death Valley, the driest desert in…
Stay Sane! Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Betting against Donald Trump is usually a bad idea.” – Insurrection Barbie on “X” What apparently riles the credentialed political Left — the “gay / race communists” in the apt new phrase — more than anything, is that most of the country has opted to not be insane….
Social Media: The Biggest Threat To Teens’ Mental Health? In 2010, Mashable declared June 30 as Social Media Day, intended to celebrate the impact of social media on communication, connection and culture. Originally launched to recognize the positive impact that platforms like Facebook, Twitter (now X) or Instagram have on human interaction around the world,…
BitMine Raises $250M To Launch Ethereum Corporate Treasury Authored by Adrian Zmudzinski via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin miner BitMine Immersion Technologies has secured a $250 million private placement to jumpstart its Ether treasury. BitMine signed a private placement for the purchase and sale of 55,555,556 shares of common stock for $4.50 per share, yielding gross proceeds of…
Trump Pivots To Pressuring Israel For New Ceasefire Deal In Gaza “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!” President Trump wrote on social media early Sunday, pivoting from a month dominated by large-scale Iran strikes to seeking more peace and stability in the long-running Israel-Palestine conflict. Naturally, the Palestinian side remains doubtful that…
SLR: Could It End The Bond Bear Market Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On June 25th, the Federal Reserve quietly announced a significant change to the Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR). While the headlines were muted, the implications for the U.S. Treasury market were anything but. For sophisticated investors, this technical shift marks a subtle…
Appeals Court Allows Trump Administration To Fire USIP Board Members Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has overturned a lower court ruling that had prevented the Trump administration from restructuring the leadership at the Institute of Peace (USIP), according to a June 27…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Bitcoin is just starting to accelerate higher again. At the start of 2024, the digital currency traded at $42,280. Today, it’s up to $107,338 and could run even higher on retail, government, and institutional…
Iran UN Envoy Makes Clear That Nuclear Enrichment ‘Will Never Stop’ In a “Face the Nation” interview on Sunday, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, vowed that Tehran will “never stop” enriching uranium as this is an inalienable right and matter of national sovereignty under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran has constantly…
Key Points Despite flat economic indicators, the market has fully recovered from a 20% early-year selloff, with gains driven by broad-based optimism across sectors including tech, industrials, and utilities. AI infrastructure demand is fueling unexpected strength in utility stocks as power providers engage in joint ventures to support data center energy needs. Investor sentiment is…
Key Points Jeff Bezos is backing an ultra-low-cost EV pickup—rumored to start around $25,000—as a direct challenge to the high-priced failures of existing electric trucks like the Tesla Cybertruck (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Ford F-150 Lightning (NYSE: F). The stripped-down, modular design targets young buyers and budget-conscious consumers, potentially creating a viable market segment largely ignored…
Key Points ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA: ARKK) has surged to a 52-week high, rebounding from a low of $36 to $71 as core holdings like Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), and Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) regain investor confidence. Cathie Wood’s long-term commitment to speculative tech and fintech names through deep selloffs has been validated by…
Key Points in This Article: Tesla (TSLA) and IBM’s (IBM) AI advancements drive investor enthusiasm, but analyst downgrades highlight overvaluation risks, suggesting caution for potential volatility. Despite their AI leadership, they face bearish sentiment from some quarters on Wall Street, emphasizing the need for modest positions in high-growth tech stocks. Nvidia made early investors rich,…
The End Is Nigh: Liberal Justices Predict “Chaos” & The Demise Of Public Education Without Mandatory LGBTQ Material Authored by Jonathan Turley, The end is nigh. That seems to be the message this week from the three liberal justices at the Supreme Court when faced with the nightmarish prospect of parents being able to remove…
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Senate Version Of Trump Tax Bill Adds $3.3 Trillion To Deficit, $500BN More Than The House; Debt Ceiling Raised By $5 Trillion The Senate version of President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) will add nearly $3.3 trillion to US deficits over a decade, according to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, half a…
When it comes time to receive your pension, it can be tricky to decide between a lump sum and lifetime monthly payments. This is especially true if you are only in your 40s, a good 20 years out from traditional retirement age. One Reddit poster was given the option of a one-time $24,000 payout or…
The Great Repression By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank US equities closed higher on Friday, the Dollar fell and Treasuries bull-steepened as markets extended the risk rally sparked by the Israel-Iran ceasefire. The NASDAQ and S&P500 both reset record highs. The latter is now up almost 5% for the year after being flat…
At the beginning of retirement, learning the ins and outs of Social Security benefits can be perplexing. This is especially true for those who haven’t fully retired yet or individuals moving abroad. One Reddit user, a teacher set to retire in 2025, posted about her confusion regarding suspended benefits. This unexpected suspension was due to…
“Frozen At The Wheel”: Bessent Slams Fed For Delay On Rate Decisions In Wide-Ranging Interview US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday criticized Federal Reserve policymakers for what he described as their hesitant posture on interest rates, while signaling that the U.S. Treasury is unlikely to alter its current strategy on debt issuance by increasing…
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. With markets still volatile, it’s a good idea to keep your portfolio protected. One of the best ways to achieve this is by investing in safe, high-yielding stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In fact,…
Key Points in This Article: CoreWeave’s (CRWV) explosive growth and AI infrastructure leadership have driven a 313% stock surge since its March IPO, capturing investor enthusiasm. Jim Cramer’s bullishness on CRWV reflects its strong fundamentals, but high debt and valuation risks warrant caution for investors. Nvidia made early investors rich, but there is a new…
