Inside the rise and fall (and rise and fall) of s**t coins

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Welcome to the era of “pump and dump,” where investors bummed about missing out on getting rich with Bitcoin are being taken for rides by online jokesters...

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Dr. Raul Vazquez hopes to encourage people to move forward with getting their COVID-19 vaccination by raffling off a brand-new Tesla Model 3. Vazquez...

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Turkish crypto exchange boss goes missing, reportedly taking $2 billion of investors’ funds with him

• Thodex, a crypto platform based in Turkey, said

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Key investor in $100 million N.J. deli has a history of legal problems, ties to criminals

Disbarred lawyers, Disbarred stockers...

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According to the company’s latest 10-K filing, the company’s single location was closed from March 23 to September 8 of last year because of the coronavirus...

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"Here's what you need to know if you're planning on a spring break trip to Orlando next week: Renting a car — if you can find one — could cost...

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"The pandemic brought the business opportunity of a lifetime to Puritan Medical Products of Guilford, Maine. But even a $250 million infusion from...

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Not sure if 750 is large enough sample...

With bitcoin continuing to make headlines as it breaks through price barriers, more new investors...

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How To Make A Million Dollars Day Trading

Start with two million.

A 50% loss doesn’t sound so bad. Many day traders end up...

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Everything in Texas went wrong at once.

To understand what's going on in Texas, and how things got so bad, you need quite a bit of arcane...

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Generac CEO says demand for power generators is high: ‘We can’t make them fast enough’

• Demand for alternative home powering sources is surging amid

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Seems like I remember Thomas Stanley mentioning car wash owners made up some of his Millionaire Next Door people.

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When They Start to Lose, They Change the Rule

But, this isn’t the first time that Wall Street changed the rules in the middle of the game....

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• Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising taxes for the wealthiest New Yorkers to a top rate of 10.86%, up from 8.82%.
• New York City residents would pay

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"Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, told The New York Times this week that he had two chances left to guess his password...

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The People Who Actually Had a Pretty Great Year

It’s not just the filthy rich. Much of America’s professional class has quietly, if a...

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They're in the business of making loans. ...

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Think Your Retirement Plan Is Bad? Talk to a Teacher

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/y...fees-teachers....

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My questions is what was the result of the action in the picture on the classic blog page?


https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/clas...

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Robinhood Founders Respond To Alex Kearns’ Suicide With Major Trading Platform Changes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeik...0/06/19/robinh...

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Chicago is well-known as far as cities with unfunded pension liabilities. Truth in Accounting Founder and CEO Sheila Weinberg told ValueWalk in an email...

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20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies By Suicide After Seeing A $730,000 Negative Balance

In fact, a screenshot from Kearns’ mobile phone reveals that...

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When William Mark decided to get back into investing after the 2008 financial crisis, he looked past stocks and bonds. Needing to play catch-up with his...

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Smaller players have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars each buying homes for short-term rentals. Jennifer Kelleher-Hazlett of Clawson, Mich., spent...

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"China’s Divorce Spike Is a Warning to Rest of Locked-Down World"
Filings started rising in March as couples emerged from quarantine....

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Oat milk also is popular
As coronavirus infections spread, demand for oat milk is outpacing hand sanitizer

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/de...

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"But you can’t blame the doctors for this one. Many of them bring up GoodRx as a way to help patients save money on spiraling medication costs....

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Closer to 60 than 50. Work at a university, hear "'preciate it" instead of "Thank you" all the time. Yeah, it bugs me, but I guess...

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A college president’s advice to students: Don’t borrow to pay tuition

(Obviously doesn't apply to med/grad school)

“Do not borrow money...

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This bonanza has not gone unnoticed by the providers of services like physical therapy that generally require repeat visits. Last year, the teachers’...

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Record low interest rates are forcing the world's best pension system to take drastic action aimed at staving off cuts to payouts that were once unthinkable....

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What has you worried about the 457 since it is only your money and no state obligation.  I could be wrong, you got me a little paranoid now since I have...

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The Seven-Year Auto Loan: America's Middle Class Can't Afford Their Cars "So far this year, dealerships made an average of $982 per new vehicle on fin...

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From CNBC Why these teachers’ retirement plans aren’t making the grade Points Public school teachers may save up to $18,500 annually in a 403(b) plan, plus an add...

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GUYS WHO INVESTED THEIR LIFE SAVINGS IN CRYPTOCURRENCY? The short answer is, they became a valuable lesson for the rest of us to never...

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CHICAGO—Amid an intense national furor over the fairness of college admissions, the Education Department is looking into a tactic that has been used...

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"DispatchHealth aims to reduce ER visits among the 100,000 patients it expects to serve this year and anticipates a savings of more than $100 million...

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Tim wrote: When talking about Illinois, one needs to realize it’s a 50/50 proposition. Cook County (50%) and the rest of the state (50%). Completely different dynamics. If one conside...

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In honor of fatlittlepig:   From USATODAY https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/01/free-food-and-deals-may-2019/3595810002/ Sonny’s BBQ: Any nurse with a vali...

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California’s population growth is the slowest in recorded history https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/californias-population-growth-is-the-slowest-in...

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Illinois declines in population for fifth year in a row with more than 45,000 fewer residents. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-census-ill...

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From suicide prevention to genetic testing, there's a widening disconnect between Silicon Valley health-tech and outside experts who see red flags   W...

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"North Carolina, which will end future-retiree health-care coverage for new workers hired in 2021, is not the only state to take more drastic measures....

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Much of the knowledge vanishes quickly in the absence of constant use. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-30/why-basic-financial-lit...

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"When it comes to money, most people lack the know-how to make smart moves on their own. Even at Wharton, one of the nation's top business schools, financial...

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Zaphod wrote: have wanted one forever just to record crazy drivers. Click to expand...   ...

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Vagabond MD wrote: Recently on the Masters in Business podcast, too. https://ritholtz.com/category/podcast/ Click to expand... Mine is a twofer: article & the podcast. ...

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Before he became a financial theorist, William J. Bernstein was a doctor. He spent the first 25 years of his career working with people with neurological...

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No need to worry about cutting it in back: ...

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Amazon employees are listening to what some people say to Alexa. Amazon says this is to help improve Alexa’s functionality. There’s a setting that lets you ...

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"I think the Dallas fire department one had this problem." Yes it was Dallas. "More than $500 million in withdrawals over a few months prompted May...

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'To pay for college, Amy Wroblewski sold a piece of her future. Every month, for eight-and-a-half years, she must turn over a set percentage of her salary...

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"Maine’s public pension fund earned double-digit returns in six of the past nine years. Yet the Maine Public Employees Retirement System is still $2.9...

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Hopefully not old news. "It’s not just Apple Inc. that’s betting big on subscriptions. Charles Schwab Corp., the low-cost investing pioneer t...

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I recently had an a aortic valve replacement.  I go to see the surgeon for the last time (hopefully) soon.  I feel that a small symbolic gift would...

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A building binge leaves cities with 65 million empty apartments Sales volumes in 24 cities tracked by China Real Estate Index System fell by 44% in t...

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Nothing really new but some nice charts. We are not big fans of market timing.  Those that profess to have such a skill before the fact often alway...

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Interesting, , Thursday the 24th I had to pick a surgeon for an operation tomorrow and had no clue if the guy was any good or not.  Actually I didn't...

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A California woman is accused of posing as a pharmacist and handling out nearly a million prescriptions before she was caught, the California Board of...

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Every Single Redshirt Death in Star Trek: TOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iFyc0dPqig...

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Is it time to ditch the white coats for a more modern look? Protective clothing is, in its purest sense, as old as humans doing dangerous things. To...

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"A group of disabled Californians and their advocates are asking a judge to order shared ride scooter companies to remove their scooters from San Diego’s...

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"The Justice Department is taking on abusive conservation easement syndications.  A complaint was filed on December 18 in the Northern District of Geo...

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"People with health insurance often pay for coverage they never use. A startup wants to shake that up. It's a radical idea: On-demand insurance that lets c...

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Cancelled due to FCC ruling.   The California Public Utilities Commission announced on Twitter Friday that it's no longer voting in January on the text ...

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Illinois Governor Candidate Removed Mansion's Toilets To Dodge Taxes, Report Finds The guy is a billionaire.  He won the election. https://www.npr....

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"California—not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Su...

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Texting your sweetheart that you’re on your way home? California may soon charge you for that. This is no LOL matter, critics say. State regulators...

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I suggest this.  It is a one time expense. ...

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I don't know how "new" or "secret" this is since I don't have an iPhone, but some of you might find this useful. A feature discovered in iOS lets you use...

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A very personal gift. ...

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Lithium wrote: https://dailygazette.com/article/2018/11/11/the-st-clare-s-pension-plan-what-went-wrong There are a lot of stories about the expected pension crisis but few horror stories yet where those fe...

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Craigy wrote: Just spend the $3.5k.  Try to negotiate it down.  Work hard, forget about it. Just remember you’re not paying the property tax. Click to expand... Aren't pr...

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Interest in investing in environmentally and socially responsible companies has surged in recent years, in part because of the tastes of purpose-minded...

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Alabama lost $20 million in timber to Hurricane Michael Headline says Alabama but the text limits it to one county. https://www.al.com/hurricane/2018/...

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hatton1 wrote: From recent WSJ articles the price of timberland in the SE has plummeted recently. Click to expand... https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-souther...

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"Two people call customer service at the same time to complain about the same thing. One waits a few seconds before a representative gets on the line. The other stays on ho...

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Steak Dinner and Annuities: Retirement Product Surges After Fiduciary Rule’s Demise "A retirement investment product associated with steak-dinner sales ...

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I see that they also hyperlinked PoF.  A double win for the WCI Empire.

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The White Coat Investor wrote: I think they actually asked permission to do that one, it’s been a while though. A shout out to PoF in there too. I thought for a second the picture was actually...

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"One of the central contradictions of capitalism is that what makes it work — competition — is also what capitalists want to get rid of the most. Th...

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Despite the Bay Area’s natural beauty and booming job market, nearly half of its residents now want to get out, citing a creeping disillusionment w...

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Like everything you have to perform due diligence.  Oh yeah, don't put all your eggs in one basket.   Thousands of Southerners planted trees for r...

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FWIW The 3 Reports You Haven’t Frozen Yet https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/3-reports-havent-frozen-yet?utm_campaign=ct_prod&utm_source=syndicatio...

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"John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive...

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Read that too.  Another like that I recently read is the financial diaries:

https://www.usfinancialdiaries.org/book/

 

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jz wrote: That is the most clear explanation of those policies I’ve ever read. Kudos to the author. The 80s were a unique time in financial history. What should we understand  about our current de...

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"For death benefits totaling about $475,000, Mr. Vertullo is paying about $30,000 a year, triple the original premiums." https://www.msn.com/en-us/m...

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"Those who are accepted to the school and whose families make less than $65,000 per year will be eligible for a grant that covers tuition and fees, room...

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From a Wealth of Common Sense Revisiting the Fall of 2008 If you had the misfortune of buying an S&P 500 index fund the Friday before Lehman Brothers ...

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ZZZ wrote: Giffen good Click to expand... I had to Google that.   My Peloton Bike Alternative; A Great Money Saving Hack https://www.sippingandshopping.org/my-peloton-bike-alternative/...

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And what turned out happening is we heard from customers that the bike must be poorly built if you’re charging $1,200 for it. We charged $2,000 dollars...

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adventure wrote: Peds wrote: the most common culprit is usually positioning.  Click to expand… Agreed. Is your wrist straight? Is your elbow supported? Try putting your walle...

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"Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlandsand eight other European nations have unveiled a radical open-access initiative that ...

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Apeel’s Edible Produce Coating Could Slay Food Waste And Save Supermarkets Billions "It took James Rogers six and a half years to generate the idea for an ...

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Fidelity Investments became the first financial company to offer no-fee index funds last month. The two funds have already attracted close to $1 billio...

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Tesla Wants Cars To Automatically Activate Their Turn Signals Something nice about Tesla.  Should be mandatory on all cars. https://www.forbes.com/si...

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This man was so fed up trying to get his Tesla fixed that he ended up doing it himself "Greg Furstenwerth thinks of himself as a Tesla fan. But after ...